Hi, On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:32:08AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > Well, you could have a message saying that you need to enable foo and a > 'force-start' action that started it regardless of what's in /etc/default.
That might be a solution. Users would certainly be less confused, but some scripts they would have written would still be... > Moreover, the script could check if it's being called on startup (it's name > is 'SXXXX') and heed the default value and start anyway if called from the > command line. I think such a solution was suggested in an ancient thread, and it was concluded that it would not work with file-rc... > There are plenty of ways to avoid that confusion. There certainly are some workarounds, but my initial question is still unanswered: is it ok to remove the links if I did not create them but told the user how to create them? Nicolas