Re-enabling of services.

Thomas Hood jdthood at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Oct 8 14:39:30 CDT 2004


On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 21:37, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
> I ran apt-get dist-upgrade and it upgraded my kernel and a whole bunch
> of other apps. So, I rebooted. However after logging back in, to my
> surprise I have found, that CUPS and postfix are running, although I
> intentionally disabled them earlier using rcconf. So, I used rcconf
> again, but now I was curious, and ran apt-get --reinstall install
> postfix cupsys and voila they are both again running and enabled. Is
> this a bug or a feature? If this is a feature, why?

It is a bug and this bug is the reason why rcconf has been removed from
Debian sarge.  Use sysv-rc-conf instead.
-- 
Thomas Hood <jdthood at yahoo.co.uk>




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