On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:41:10PM +1000, Simon Wong wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 14:30 +1000, James wrote:
> > The problem is that when I apt-get upgrade it restores the default
> > runlevels and starts the daemons.  How can I get the runlevels to stay
> > at my settings across an apt-get upgrade ?
> 
> Yes, this is one of my pet hates about Debian.
> 
> I guess the logic is that if you're installing it you want it to run!

No, if you're installing it but don't want it to run modify the rcN.d
symlinks to say "Stop" not "Start".

It's a failing of the SysV init system that the obvious thing (remove those
pesky symlinks) isn't the correct thing.

- Matt

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