  Re: apt-get install without starting?  Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 09:21:46PM -0700, David Barrett
<dbarrett@quinthar.com> was heard to say: Mumia W.. wrote: On
07/11/2008 07:26 PM, David Barrett wrote: Is there any way to
"apt-get install ssh" without having it automatically start
sshd? Same for "lighttpd".  Basically, I'm making great progress
in my bootable QEMU image script:  I don't know of a way, but
you can firewall-off the ssh port before you install, and you
can configure ssh to not start by running update-rc.d.  Ug.
That's unfortunate. My primary reason for not wanting it to
start is actually for a different reason than security: I don't
know a general way to determine which packages start up
processes that need stopping, nor how to stop them.
Essentially, I'm writing a script to generate ready-to-deploy
bootable qemu images, One of the inputs of the script is a list
of packages to install. This works fantastic, with the key
exception that some of those packages (ssh and lighttp