Hi Andreas, > On Saturday, April 14, 2012 01:14:03 you wrote: > > insserv is the wrong interface to disable services. insserv -r *removes* > > links to services and that's exactly what it does, it does not disable the > > links from ever returning and never will be extended to do that. > > > > Update-rc.d has an interface for disabling initscript execution, though > > arguably this interface should be in the service(8) command. This was > > mentioned earlier in the bug report. > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560222#10 > > > > Thanks, Kel > > i see, > i was under the wrong impression that insserv and update-rc.d did the same > thing, and that using update-rc.d was deprecated. so 'insserv -r' is like > 'update-rc.d remove', but what i really should do is 'update-rc.d disable', > which creates 'stop' links rather than deleting 'start' links.
Exactly. insserv should never need to be called directly, update-rc.d continues to be the interface for all things related to adding/removing(/disabling) init scripts. Thanks, Kel. _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
