On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:37:05AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:12:36 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, David Pashley wrote: > > >> > The better fix IS to add an extra line to both incarnations of > > >> > invoke-rc.d > > >> > (sysv-rc's and file-rc's) to look under /usr/local/sbin first. > > > > > >Make that "later". I just noticed one has to run the system's > > >/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d in preference to all else. > > > > Why? > > Because if any package that is NOT a policy-rc.d package is providing a > policy-rc.d in /usr/sbin, it has a damn good reason to do so, and it should > take precendence. Examples of damn good reasons are alternative initscript > managers such as runit.
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