On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 09:21:46PM -0700, David Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Mumia W.. wrote: >> On 07/11/2008 07:26 PM, David Barrett wrote: >>> Is there any way to "apt-get install ssh" without having it >>> automatically start sshd? Same for "lighttpd". >>> >>> Basically, I'm making great progress in my bootable QEMU image script: >>> >> >> I don't know of a way, but you can firewall-off the ssh port before you >> install, and you can configure ssh to not start by running update-rc.d. >> > > Ug. That's unfortunate. My primary reason for not wanting it to start > is actually for a different reason than security: I don't know a general > way to determine which packages start up processes that need stopping, > nor how to stop them. > > Essentially, I'm writing a script to generate ready-to-deploy bootable > qemu images, One of the inputs of the script is a list of packages to > install. This works fantastic, with the key exception that some of > those packages (ssh and lighttpd, specifically) start up running > processes. These processes need to be stopped before I can dismount the > raw image and zip it up for instant future deployment.
I've never used it myself, but I believe that invoke-rc.d was supposed to solve this sort of problem. (I don't know much more than that, but it looks like the manpage might have pointers) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]