Re: SS99kde

[Derek Broughton <derek@pointerstop.ca>]

On Tuesday 08 March 2005 16:44, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 8. März 2005 21:19 schrieb Derek Broughton:
> > On Tuesday 08 March 2005 13:26, Georg Prager wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 08 March 2005 16:44, George Cohn wrote:
> > > > Somehow I managed to delete the SS99kde file instead of mv it to
> > > > prevent kde from starting at boot up.
> > > >
> > > > Dumb question probably but how can I restore it?
> > >
> > > man ln
> >
> > That's just plain wrong
>
> No

Yes.

> > seeing as how update-rc.d is the correct way to
> > update the symlinks to init.d.
>
> s/the correct/another/
>
> > Before suggesting rtfm, you should have
> > rtfm'd yourself.
>
> You, too.

Well, I have, and update-rc.d is _specifically_ the correct way to do the job.  
Admittedly, debian-policy says "any _automated_ manipulation of the various 
runlevel behaviours by maintainer scripts must be performed using 
update-rc.d" (emphasis mine) which still permits other manual operations.  
Sure, you can perform a manual operation any way you want, but it's a really 
bad idea to tell people how to do something the wrong way when they clearly 
don't have a clue what they've done wrong in the first place.
-- 
derek