On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:52:13PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 at 21:59:40 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > even init.d has a documented (and what's > > more, actually *working*) implementation of not starting daemons at > > boot. It's called 'remove the ******* symlink'. > > If you remove them, they'll be recreated by the next upgrade; the right > way to disable an init script is to change the Snn links to K$((100 - nn)), > or in recent sysv-rc, "update-rc.d foo disable".
Only if you remove them all, as aba already said. Having said that, I do agree with you that it could benefit from either better documentation, or a command for system admins to use which would enable or disable initscripts. RedHat (and similars) have 'chkconfig' which does this; porting it to Debian should not be too hard. -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110725150421.ga22...@grep.be
