Re: Why is proftpd always started when one update it?
Ted Cabeen <ted@impulse.net> wrote on 01/07/2003 (08:14) :
> Individual admins are not supposed to use update-rc.d to disable a
> packaged program from starting.
I got told earlier that I should use the update tools when doing
changes.
> update-rc.d is supposed to be for the use of the installer programs,
> not admins. If you want to prevent a program from starting at
> boot-time, remove all of the links from the rc.? directories except
> one kill link. That way the update-rc.d script will know that the
> program has already been installed and will not change anything. When
> you remove all of the links, it has no way of knowing that the program
> was already installed and the admin removed the links, so it restores
> them all.
Which means that this system is really braindead, but ok I'll go with
the hopeless quirkiness of it and put in a kill link.
At least update-rc.d should have an argument no-start or disable etc..
so that it does this itself.
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