[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#661314: insserv: script <foo> is not an executable regular file, skipped!

[Kel Modderman]

> Kel Modderman wrote:
> 
> >>  update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
> >>  insserv: script vsftpd is not an executable regular file, skipped!
> [...]
> >> What is this message intended to convey?  Could it be reworded?
> >
> > It think its pretty stright forward, its complaining that the script it has
> > been asked to work on is not executable.
> 
> Good.
> 
> The problem is that it is saying it completely skipped it (which a
> naive user will interpret as meaning "did nothing"), and that is
> simply not true.
> 

Sort of, maybe. (what about the other questions? :))

The non-executable script gets ignored, then later when insserv updates the
symlink farm based on the overall dependency graph (which doesn't include the
skipped script), symlinks to scripts which do not exist or are invalid are
removed.

Thanks, Kel