Frank S. Thomas wrote: > > the standard way how to disable > services (not restarting them on upgrades nor starting them at boot) is to > change the the S symlinks in /etc/rc?.d/ to K symlinks (so changing > /etc/rc?.d/S20boinc-client to /etc/rc?.d/K20boinc-client). This has the > desired effect of not restarting BOINC on upgrades and still let you start > and > stop it via /etc/init.d/boinc-client. > > There is a tool called sysv-rc-conf which renames the symlinks for you. So to > disable the BOINC client you can run: > > sysv-rc-conf boinc-client off > > I think this is what you should have done in the first place before running > "/etc/init.d/boinc stop" and giving the machine to your colleague. This way > the boinc-client wouldn't have bugged you during the dist-upgrade. > > What do you think? Can we close this bug or should boinc-client really behave > differently than other services? > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00892.html > Thank you very much for your uttermost helpful email, Frank. We can indeed close this bug. I'll do so in a second.
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