If you have sysvinit 2.80 or newer, you should be able to suppress the init scripts entirely by creating an /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d that always returns 101. (Just don't forget to make sure the target machines kill that file....) -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) Finger amu@monk.mit.edu (NOT a valid e-mail address) for more info.