On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:20:20PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > update-rc.d is a good way to keep the debian package system > up-to-date on your intentions. (sure, you may manually rename or > remove enough files to stop the service from auto-starting, but a > future `apt-get upgrade` may -- or may not -- undo all your hard > work, if you work outside the packaging system.)
If you move files aside in /etc/rc*.d, a future 'apt-get upgrade' will not undo your changes provided that you have left at least one link there. update-rc.d isn't magic in this regard: if you remove all the links with update-rc.d, your changes will be overwritten on future upgrades. So 'update-rc.d <name> remove' doesn't tell the package management system anything special, contrary to what your expectations might be; it just removes the links, and they'll be put back on the next upgrade. update-rc.d's remove action therefore requires an extra -f (force) option if the target of the symlink is still there. This is one of the reasons I tend to suggest moving the links around by hand rather than using update-rc.d. The semantics of the latter are just too confusing, whereas the former is relatively easily explained. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
