> > I was not aware of this structure, but it seems to relate to controlling > > the start of damons during boot or changes in runlevel. I do not see how > > this will prevent a package that has a > > > > /etc/init.d/<daemon> start > Well if they do they won't work on file-rc system , so are already broken ...
Then there are many such broken packages. I just counted about 40 both in the sarge system closest at hand and in a woody server. The list includes many important packages, see lists below. Looks like this policy has not been followed very much... Cheers, ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jorge L. deLyra, Associate Professor of Physics The University of Sao Paulo, IFUSP-DFMA For more information: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- woody: acct adjtimex anacron and apache at autofs bind console-common cron dqs gom gpm ircd isapnptools junkbuster kbd libc6 linuxlogo lprng makedev mrouted netkit-inetd nfs-common nfs-kernel-server nis ntop ntp-simple ntpdate portmap ppp procps quota rwhod setserial spamassassin ssh sudo sysstat upsd xfs xpilot-server xtell sarge: anacron and apache apache-common at autofs binfmt-support console-common console-tools cron dhcp3-server exim4-base exim4-daemon-light gom hpoj isapnptools libdevmapper1 lprng makedev nbd-client nbd-server netkit-inetd nfs-common nfs-kernel-server nis ntp-server ntpdate nut portmap procps queue quota rsync rwhod setserial ssh sudo wu-ftpd xprt-common xtell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]