chkconfig equivalent debian

biophysics · 07-26-2005, 08:09 AM

Hi Gurus

I am new to debian.

I use chkconfig --del <service name> in SuSE to stop a service. What is the equivalent to stop a service **permanently** in debian (sarge)

(I want to stop sshd)

Many thanks

darkleaf · 07-26-2005, 08:52 AM

If you don't need the service you can simply delete the package for it. If that's to much you can look in /etc/init.d where the startup scripts for programs are.

harken · 07-26-2005, 09:12 AM

Or a more elegant way would be using the 'update-rc.d' command which allows you to add/remove/set the symlinks in /etc/rc*.d that point to scripts in /etc/init.d.
To remove a script that starts a certain service run

Code:

update-rc.d -f script_name remove

then you can keep or delete the corresponding script in /etc/init.d/