This is been this way since at least 10.04.
I say its only moderately annoying that in order to start it via init script
you must enable it to start on boot.
** Changed in: cyrus-sasl2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: cyrus-sasl2 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
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** Description changed:
On installation dpkg shows:
- sasl2-bin (2.1.23.dfsg1-5ubuntu2) wird eingerichtet ...
- update-rc.d: warning: saslauthd stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do not
match LSB Default-Stop values (1)
- * To enable saslauthd, edit /etc/default/saslauthd and set START=yes
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