[Cialug] How do you find when a program is used during init?

[Nathan C. Smith]

Indeed, why not?

Thanks Jeff, that helped me figure out the issue.  The outside of my box for thinking was broken today.

-Nate


-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Ollie
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:52 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] How do you find when a program is used during init?

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> On a custom Debian-based distribution, ntpdate is being used in the startup, but I don't know where.  I'd like to find it and comment it out to test something.  What is the best way to track down a program that is running during init?  Is there a way to know at what runlevel it is running?
>
> I've looked in /etc/init.d and in rc0.d and others but nothing is jumping out.
>
> Thanks for any tips or pointers.

Why not rename ntpdate to something else and replace it with a link to /bin/true?

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Jeff Ollie
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