Bug#975591: update-rc.d disable

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, Tom H wrote:

> > There *absolutely* HAS to be some way to disable an init script

> It depends what's meant by "disable".

Which part of “disable an init script” did you not understand?

> If it means "disable <daemon> from starting at boot", then

No.

> If it means "disable <daemon> from starting at all", then "update-rc.d

No.

It means “do not call this init script in any runlevel”,
which *ought* to be very obvious.

> It feels like a lot of work for an unusual corner case.

It’s by no means an unusual corner case.

Installing a package to have a dæmon binary (or really any
file from it) available but not intending for the initscript
to run isn’t anything special. There’s even standardised-ish
ways to do so (chmod -x the dæmon binary), which however
won’t be usable if users need to start it manually.

(Curiously wondering whether systemd handles _this_ right…)

bye,
//mirabilos
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