Re: Preserving admin runlevel modifications on upgrade?

To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Preserving admin runlevel modifications on upgrade?
From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:28:21 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 871xbs5qzu.fsf@alhambra.kuesterei.ch>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20050207150049.GA8855@app109.intern> (Christian Hammers's message of "Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:00:49 +0100")
References: <[🔎] 20050207150049.GA8855@app109.intern>

Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org> schrieb:

> Hello
>
> [please Cc me, I'm not subscribed -thanks]
>
> AFAIK the standard way of registering daemons is to run
>  update-rc.d foobar defaults
> in the postinst script. This sadly resets any changes the administrator
> made on every upgrade.

Only if the administrator didn't read the docs properly.

> What is the recommended?

read update-rc.d(8), section "INSTALLING INIT SCRIPT LINKS", second
paragraph. 

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer

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