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

[Jonathan Nieder]

Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.88dsf-22
Severity: minor
Justification: confusing message

Hi,

If I do:

 apt-get install vsftpd
 service vsftpd stop
 chmod -x /etc/init.d/vsftp
 update-rc.d vsftpd disable

then the last command produces:

 update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
 insserv: script vsftpd is not an executable regular file, skipped!

However vsftpd was not skipped --- the "update-rc.d vsftpd disable"
command behaves exactly the way I'd have wanted, even after the init
script is marked executable again.

What is this message intended to convey?  Could it be reworded?

Thanks for keeping the init system working well, by the way.

Sincerely,
Jonathan

 $ dpkg-query -W insserv
 insserv	1.14.0-2.2