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

[Jonathan Nieder]

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.