* Thorsten Glaser [Thu Oct 31, 2013 at 01:27:12PM +0100]:
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2013, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Curiously, a lot of system administrators do not do this correctly
> > using sysvinit, causing system daemons to start unexpectedly after
> > installing package updates.
> What *is* the correct way, anyway?
> My coworkers tell me to delete the symlinks in /etc/rc*.d/
> but that’s sysv-rc specific,
[...]
And wrong, you'll get the symlinks restored on package upgrades.
| Disabling a daemon service is quite simple. You either remove the
| package providing the program for that service or you remove or
| rename the startup links under /etc/rc${runlevel}.d/. If you rename
| them make sure they do not begin with 'S' so that they don't get
| started by /etc/init.d/rc. Do not remove all the available links or
| the package management system will regenerate them on package
| upgrades, make sure you leave at least one link (typically a 'K',
| i.e. kill, link).
-- http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch3.en.html#s-disableserv
So "mv /etc/rc#.d/S*foo /etc/rc#.d/K*foo" is supposed to do the
trick for sysv-rc.
regards,
-mika-
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