Re: [tlug] script to disable / enable processes in rc?.d/

[Keith Bawden <isdj@example.com>]

Scott VanDusen wrote:
> This seems really めんどくさい, does anyone actually do this? It seems 
> the other option is to delete all the symlinks in all the runlevels, 
> and then run update-rc.d -f service remove. Or perhaps just 
> temporarily moving the file it is symlinking to into another 
> directory. But say like you wanted to disable the service in all 
> runlevels as they recommend above- leaving the symlink but switching 
> the S to a K?  I'd like to have some script to automatically do this 
> from a shell, but I'm not sure how to do this so I thought I would ask 
> the pros. For example to temporarily disable the process monopoly I 
> thought of doing something like:
Hello,

When working with Debian/Ubuntu you can use the update-rcd command to do 
this sort of stuff.  man update-rcd is a good place to start.

On RedHat/Fedora us can use chkconfig. Again man chkconfig is a good 
place to start.

Regards, Keith