Hi, I have a Potato workstation with several services installed on it. Thanks to links in /etc/rc?.d they start and stop automatically at system startup/shutdown :-)
The problem is that I do not need all of them all the time - when I work on certain subject I would like to switch other services off (e.g. working on PostgreSQL I do not need MySQL). 1. I can do this manually running '/etc/init.d/<service> stop' but I do not want to do this every time I reboot the machine. 2. I can run 'update-rc.d -f <service> remove' but then I have to remember all the run levels where the service was linked (with order numbers) and additionally it removes also 'K*' links so the service (e.g. started by hand) will not have a chance to shutdown correctly. 3. Finally I made my own script which renames all /etc/rc?.d/S##<service> into skip-S##<service> what works fine (/etc/init.d/rc does not start such a service on system startup but stops it during shutdown). The problem is that this is not standard solution (e.g. not supported by dpkg and update-rc.d). Is there a better way for suspending services? What I did looks very tricky - I would prefer something similar to putting '#' in front of line in /etc/inittab. Regards, Piotr Tarnowski
