Use policy-rc.d to prevent services from starting automatically

1 · Jérôme Petazzoni · Oct. 6, 2013, midnight
When you install (or upgrade) a service, the package manager will try to start (or restart) this service. If you are working on a normal server, this is usually what you want. But if you are inside a chroot environment, or maintaining some kind of golden image, you don’t want to start services. If you are using Debian/Ubuntu-based distros, there is a super easy way to solve the problem: the /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d script. Sysadmin inhibits service start and stop with this weird trick When anything...