will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:32:28PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: >> If you're not using NFS or NIS then you can safely remove it. Those are >> the 2 main services that need it. >> >> Don't use update-rc.d remove, though. If you ever upgrade your system >> it will restore all the symlinks to the default configuration. Instead >> just remove the 'S' symlinks (the ones that start portmap) by hand. >> Leave the 'K' symlinks. If you leave some symlinks in place then >> your configuration won't be overwritten when you upgrade. > >well! this brings up an interesting point -- > >is there a DEBIAN-happy way to permanently remove an >/etc/init.d/* service? this wholesale 'rm' stuff sounds hacky >for such a streamlined apt-friendly distribution. what's the >debian way of purging-inits-for-posterity?
As far as I remember, if you remove a conffile (e.g. /etc/init.d/*), dpkg won't restore it on an upgrade; you need to purge and reinstall the package to get it to do that. (In other words, a file being missing is sometimes a valid configuration state for that file.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]