On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:22:47AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:29:58PM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote: > > I suspect it's already been discussed before, so I'll ask instead of > > flaming. (See! I can learn!) > > many times before. > > > Why does a server automatically get run just because it's installed? > > because if you didn't want it to run, you wouldn't have installed it. > > if you want to install it but not run it, then edit the startup script. > > simple.
Or, rm /etc/rc?.d/S??package, and not have to worry about merging in future changes to the init script. -- - mdz