>> I've always assumed that: >> >> - the rcX.d links are only meant to be changed by running "insserv" >> (directly or via update-rc.d) >> >> - the dependencies of "/etc/init.d/foo" should be changed via >> "/etc/insserv/overrides/foo" > > That sounds overly procrustean if applied rigorously, don't you think so?
On a personal laptop, maybe. In a professional context, with multiple sysadmins and systems, definitely not. The insserv man page should really say something like "the /etc/rcX.d directories are owned by insserv and the symlinks that they contain should not be edited manually." If creating "/etc/insserv/overrides/foo" is too much, there's always the option of editing "/etc/init.d/foo" directly, since it's generally (always?) a dpkg conffile.
