Bug#819040: insserv: Symlinked init script in /etc/init.d/<service> fails to be recognised on reboot.

[Brett Ryan]

> On 23 Mar 2016, at 18:39, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
> 
> When that is said, I suspect it is in general a good idea to not use
> symlinks in /etc/init.d/.

I would generally agree, I'm presently setting up VM with a preinstalled
service in /opt running as its own user. When this service updates itself
it will only have access to the service location in /opt/<name> and
/srv/<name>, if I need to update the init script then I can do so in this
manner.