Monday, October 02, 2006

update-rc.d

Debian way of managing sysV init scripts

You can create links or delete them, among other things, with this script. It is better to manage service startup with this rather than, e.g., deleting symlinks manually, as they may get recreated when the service is updated. Thus, if you want to disable a service, use update-rc.d to set this (see man page). There a variety of other handy scripts for managing and configuring services on Debian under the name of update-*

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