Removing daemons from the boot-up process...

**doesnotcompute** · 03-10-2005, 11:09 PM

Hello,

I've just run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on my knoppix hard drive installation, but after I've rebooted, a load of unneccesary daemons have started at boot up. (i.e. samba server, mySql server, squid proxy, a thpttd web server {I think that's what it's called})... Anyway, is there some conf file that I can tweak to make sure these services don't load the next time I boot up? I really don't need them at all, and they're quite a security risk...

**pureone** · 03-10-2005, 11:25 PM

use

Code:

rcconf

if its not there just

Code:

apt-get install rcconf

enjoy

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**doesnotcompute** · 03-10-2005, 11:41 PM

Sweet! Thanks for the speedy reply!!

**doesnotcompute** · 03-11-2005, 08:48 PM

I tried to install rcconf, but I ended up with a package dependency..... Anyway I was actually able to remove uneeded daemons from the startup process using

Code:

update-rc.d -f <process_name> remove

where <process_name> is the name of the process that you wish to remove from the bootup sequence. To get a list of all the services that were running at boot up, I simply typed

Code: