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Re: How to prevent starting the PCMCIA services



On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:03:14AM -0800, Andrew Gorcester wrote:
> Dear Edwin,
> 
> If you don't need the PCMCIA services, Debian should detect this and ask you
> if you want them removed.  If you do need them but don't want them
> temporarily, you can remove the PCMCIA link in rc2.d (and the ones rc3.d,
> 4.d and 5.d as well, for good measure).  Don't remove the link in rc6.d or
> rc1.d.  I don't have PCMCIA installed on my system right now, but as I think
> the links in rc2-5 should look something like "S20pcmcia".

As a temporary measure, you may be better off editing /etc/init.d/pcmcia
to start something like:

        #!/bin/sh
        exit 0

At least, that's easier to undo than re-creating links.

Just my 2p


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