[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#560222: Bug#560222: insserv: How to disable a service permanently?

[Kel Modderman]

Hi Andreas

> the bug still exists in stable (version 1.14.0-2) and from what i remember 
> also in testing.
> 
> steps to reproduce:
> 
> 1) insserv -r service
> 2) aptitude full-upgrade
> result: service is running again if the service was in the upgrade
> 
> 
> may i propose this be more than wishlist:
> 
> for one, the expected behavior is that package upgrades do not override user-
> made system configurations without asking (this is the case at least when 
> dealing with config files from what i've seen). disabling a service with 
> insserv is, from a user view, just as much part of a system configuration as 
> editing some .conf file, hence should be respected just as much.

insserv is the wrong interface to disable services. insserv -r *removes* links
to services and that's exactly what it does, it does not disable the links from
ever returning and never will be extended to do that.

Update-rc.d has an interface for disabling initscript execution, though arguably
this interface should be in the service(8) command. This was mentioned earlier in
the bug report.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560222#10

Thanks, Kel