Re: update-rc.d creates unexpected sequence numbers

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:16:00PM +0800, CN wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016, at 09:14 PM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > Jessie/Sid here. But the more important thing is... what version of
> > sysv-rc is yours? What update-rc.d are you using?
> > 
> 
> "dpkg -l sysv-rc" show this from local host:
> 
> ii sysv-rc        2.88dsf-41+deb7u1
> 
> "2.88dsf-59" from my VPS provider.

OK. Same version as here.

> How embarrasing! I spent quite a while trying to get your second point,
> but to no avail.

No worries :)

> I am in the impression that there is only one copy of
> globally accessible update-rc.d, which is exactly located in /usr/sbin/,
> meaning that every time I type "update-rc.d" in shell, this exact
> version /usr/sbin/update-rc.d gets executed. The only special thing I
> notice is that it is a perl script.  Am I missing anything else?

All correct.

> I do not know what I am doing. Regardless, I typed what you showed in
> previous message:
> 
> sha1sum /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
> 
> and got this result which I have no idea of its meaning:
> 
> 19d097b7dbe7f0d0a551e40e9183656f81908088  /usr/sbin/update-rc.d

This gives a "fingerprint" of the file. If it is identical to the
one I get in my box we can be (nearly) sure that both files are
identical. They are.

So the question now is... why they behave differently? I don't know
yet, but perhaps I come up with an idea.

regards
- -- t
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