packages that start a daemon

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:52:54 +0100 (CET), Phil <biondi at cartel-securite.fr> said:

    > Hi, Is there any way to prevent a package (as apache, or ssh) to
    > start the daemon it has just installed ?

normally all daemon should be started from /etc/init.d/* by using the
/sbin/start-stop-daemon. FAI has a faked version of start-stop daemon,
that does not start a daemon. But if a /etc/init.d/ script directly
start a daemon, there's no (easy) way to prevent the daemon from starting.

-- 
 Thomas