[ltp] Lightening Debian

[Brian Nelson]

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:58:16PM +0200, Flavio Visentin wrote:
> > 2.   Kill a few daemons.   Desktop-Linux.net suggests doing that, but the 
> > apps it mentions (Ksysv and Gnome-system-tools) are of course GUI-based, and 
> > the other one, chkconfig, is apparently rpm-based.     Are there any non-X  
> > debian equivalents?   
> 
> update-rc.d -f daemon-name remove
> 
> Note: if you update a package you must rerun the command, since the
> installation package recreates the links.

Err, yeah, that's why you shouldn't use that command.  It's designed to
be run from package scripts, and is not designed to be a general purpose
tool to manage the symlinks.

You should instead remove the symlinks directly, or use rcconf,
sysv-rc-conf, etc.

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