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Re: How to install init scripts manually?



On Lu, 04 aug 14, 11:37:08, Gary Dale wrote:
> 
> OK. On Jessie it is a symbolic link to /bin/systemctl. The difference is
> likely important to provide a standard way to change run levels despite not
> everyone using init. Ditto for insserv which seems to have been created to
> allow upstart and init to coexist.

What?

> update-rc.d seems to be an attempt to make updating the run-levels 
> easier.

What?

> I'd recommend staying with the tools and not doing it directly for the
> simple reason that the old init system seems to be on its way out. The LSB
> comment mechanism may become obsolete too with systemd apparently on track
> to be the universal replacement for init and upstart.
> 
> As for your specific problem, did you look at ownership and specific
> permission differences between your manual s-links and the ones inserv and
> update-rc.d created? That's the only thing I can think of that would prevent
> a script from running when the symbolic links point to the correct file.

Symlinks don't have permissions.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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