Re: Why is proftpd always started when one update it?

[Chatchai JANTARAPRIM <cj@fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th>]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Philippe Marzouk wrote:

> I agree with you for the /etc/rcX.d symlinks but various packages (not
> sure about proftpd) start their daemon when upgraded even if it was not
> started before and there is no start link in /etc/rcX.d, only stop links :
> I had this behaviour with tomcat4 for example or fetchmail.
> 
> I, too, find this behaviour a little annoying and don't know if there is a
> defined Debian policy.
> 
> Philippe

On my debian system there is /etc/default/proftpd, in which contains this:

| # Defaults for proftpd initscript
|
| # Master system-wide proftpd switch. The initscript
| # will not run if it is not set to yes.
| RUN="yes"
|	
| # Default options.
| # For more exhaustive logging, try "-d 3".
| OPTIONS=""

So, you can just chage RUN to "no".

Cheers,
cj