(dropping -devel for this minor fix) Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Steps towards a patch to document disabling a daemon upon installation"): > 3. run > insserv add DAEMON,stop=RLVL,RLVL,.... > (for the complete set of start and stop runlevels)
Sorry, that should read: insserv DAEMON,stop=RLVL,RLVL,.... This worked in my ad-hoc tests, and generated a state equivalent to update-rc.d defaults && update-rc.d disable. Ian.