On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:16:08AM +0200, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > Hi, > > I am in the course of writing a graphical runlevel editor, and I happen to > have the following questions: <snip> > > 2) If I remove all symlinks in all runlevels (basically "update-rc.d -f > proftpd remove"), create a startup link ("update-rc.d proftpd start 50 > 4 ."), creating a stop link fails with the following output: > > # update-rc.d proftpd stop 50 4 . > System startup links for /etc/init.d/proftpd already exist.
Create the start/stop links at the same time. update-rc.d does not allow changes if any links exists to allow the local admin to override automatic package changes (see the manpage). For example, the default is equivalent to: update-rc.d foobar start 20 2 3 4 5 . stop 20 0 1 6 . HTH > > This seems a bit odd to me, I checked twice, the startup link command did > not create any Knnproftpd links. So why's that? > > The default option of update-rc.d only lets me create links for runlevels > 3,4 and 5, so this one's out since I want to use the respective runlevels > independently from each other. > > > cheers, > sebas -- Chris Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux --- The best things in life are free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]