[Paul Menzel] > Could you add some information about this issue in the man page or > the Debian Wiki?
The update-rc.d(8) manual page already got this section: A common system administration error is to delete the links with the thought that this will "disable" the service, i.e., that this will prevent the service from being started. However, if all links have been deleted then the next time the package is upgraded, the package's postinst script will run update-rc.d again and this will reinstall links at their factory default locations. The correct way to disable services is to configure the service as stopped in all runlevels in which it is started by default. In the System V init system this means renaming the service's symbolic links from S to K. Using "update-rc.d -f ssh remove" do not disable the service, it delete the links. What more did you propose to do? There is also the experimental feature in sysv-rc, to let update-rc.d do the disabling using "update-rc.d ssh disable". The API is not yet final, and the feature is not implemented in file-rc, so do not expect this to keep working in the future. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list Pkg-sysvinit-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel