Right, that says if you delete all the links it will replace them. So it probably doesn't replace them if you just delete one. I'm pretty sure that's the behaviour I have observed. Now that you've clude me in, I wwouldn't count on it always working that way. So my suggestion to remove the links was wrong. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:59 PM Subject: Re: Debian Questions > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > - From the update-rc.d(8) man page: > "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 sym- > bolic links from S to K." > > I can confirm that replacing some S links in /etc/rc2.d with K links, > and then having those packages upgraded leaves the links as they > are. Whether or not a deleted link would have been put back or not > upon upgrade, I don't know, I suppose that would depend on whether or > not a package uses update-rc.d to manage links after it gets > installed/upgraded. However, I do think that if such a paragraph in a > man page would have been wrong, it probably would have been noticed > and corrected fairly quickly. > > Greg > > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 08:29:12PM -0500, John G. Heim wrote: >> Huh... Are you sure it replaces the link on upgrade? Because I have >> removed that link on plenty of systems and I think I've run 'apt-get >> dist-upgrade' about a bzillion times but I don't think it ever replaced >> the link. But obviously, by the number of "I thinks" in this message, I'm >> not sure. >> >> It seems to me that that would kind of be a bug. It would be akin to over >> writing a config file you modified. >> > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkibqIYACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyCK5ACgunJOPHIr/RNSsT48WfdMJ5Ga > 5q4AoIA8AdSnqvXLvbHn0kWnwWdJT7yo > =Jf1+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
