[GLLUG] Debian, Daemon installed, but not running

[Brian Hoort]

That's Great. Thanks!

If you have time: What exactly is it doing? If the link is still in rc*, 
then it will run, won't it?

Cheers,

At 03:04 PM 10/31/2002, you wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:00:14PM -0500, Brian Hoort wrote:
>
>    At the last SlashDot Meetup, I asked if there was a way to stop a
>    daemon from running without un-installing it. I was just reading
>    through the Debian Weekly News and found this:
>
>    Enabling Daemons. Noah Meyerhans noted that Debian currently
>    doesn't support situations when a daemon package is installed and
>    the daemon isn't started upon startup. Noah wondered why Debian
>    doesn't support the BSDish /etc/rc.conf system which contains a
>    variable for each daemon.  (yanked from:
>    http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2002/38/ )
>
>Use this:
>
>update-rc.d -f [daemon] remove
>
>This will remove it from startup, but you will need to execute the
>above command each time you upgrade the specific software package.
>
>The base script /etc/init.d/[daemon] will still exist if you wish to
>start it manually.
>
>dpk