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Re: Request for Comments: Standardize enabling/disabling of system services



On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:04:10 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
wrote:
>* Using policy-rc.d, which is at least underdocumented.  I've used Debian
>  for a long time and I still have difficulty figuring out just what I'm
>  supposed to put where to disable a specific init script for a specific
>  service using the policy-rc.d layer and how that interacts with the
>  system boot process.

Yes, its documentation lacks examples, and in its default form
requires the local admin to put configuration data in /usr, which is a
FHS violation. There is policy-rc.d-script-zg2, which allows the local
admin to place the scripts in /etc.

Greetings
Marc

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