On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 12:40 +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 14:46 -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:38:47AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > > > OK. You want to be able to invoke the daemon when you want it, and you > > > also never want it invoked automatically at boot. > > > > Why not disable it in rc.X (or equivelent, if you're not using > > SysV-style). If you're not familiar with the way the symlinks there > > work, there are several utilities and documents to help. > > If that's all that the system administrator wants, then it's quite > simple to manipulate the rc symlinks using update-rc.d. I don't think > it's the package's responsibility to call update-rc.d in this way on > behalf of the administrator. >
Thinking about it even more, I think you're spot on, Anthony. Your solution is precisely the one Dan wanted in the first place. Dan, the command you want is "update-rc.d xprint remove". This will prevent Xprt from being started up at boot. If later you want it to start at boot as normal, then you run "update-rc.d xprint defaults". I think what I will do is back out the patch which introduced /etc/default/xprint. It's shouldn't be needed. However, I won't do this just yet since currently the symlinks will be created again when you upgrade. This sounds to me like a bug in dh_installinit, or in the update-rc.d infrastructure, since changes made by the system administrator to config files in /etc are not supposed to be affected by upgrades. Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
