On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:41:34AM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote: > As I understand, deleting start links with 'update-rc.d -f apache remove' is > the Debian way of removing start calls for services at boot time. > > After every package upgrade of e. g. apache, I must call this command again, > because start links were be installed again. Is it the normal behaviour? If > yes, I think that should be handled better. > update-rc.d should remember, which services are disabled and should disable > it > after every upgrade. > > Or is there any other way to prevent starting such services at boot time > persistently?
Yes: don't remove ALL the links. If you keep some (eg all the K stop links), update-rc.d will not add any new ones. This is an excellent question for debian-user. Or Google. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]