Hi This is really annoying and insecure. I have proftpd installed on my debian in those rare occations I cannot use SSH to transfer files from another computer. However I do not want proftpd to run except when I start it manually myself and after the transfer I turn it off. I saw now that there was an security alert for proftpd so I updated it and again it put up symlinks in /etc/rcX.d/ so that the proftpd starts when I boot the system. I had to do a update-rc.d -f proftpd remove again.
The first times I updated proftpd (and other servers) I didn't notice that after an update it started them up even though I had turned that off, so I was surprised to find them running. I think that you should get asked if you want to start up the servers at boot time when you install one. I don't find it good security practise to just assume the installer wants it running at all times. And I don't understand why this is still the default behaviour of Debian GNU/Linux. If somebody could explain why it is like this it would be nice. Thanks in advance. Preben Randhol -- Ada95 is good for you. http://www.crystalcode.com/codemage/MainMenu/Coding/Ada/IntroducingAda.php
