[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] policy-rc.d doesn't work?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Bob Proulx]
> > Then according to the docs no daemons should be started.  But when I
> > reboot all daemons are running normally.  In spite of the policy-rc.d
> > script the init scripts were all still run.
> 
> policy-rc.d is invoked by update-rc.d when a package is installed and
> removed, and not by the individual init.d scripts when the machine or
> service is started.

policy-rc.d is invoked (only, AFAIK) by invoke-rc.d, which should be used by
all the maintainer scripts inside the packages to start/stop/restart
services when a package is installed, removed or upgraded.

It does not override the initscript subsystem itself, so if you want to
change the behaviour on boot, you use "update-rc.d <foo> disable/enable".

> Clear documentation, I suspect. :)

Probably...

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