Re-enabling of services.

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Fri Oct 8 14:48:12 CDT 2004


On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 03:37:09PM -0400, 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?

You need to leave at least one start/stop link in place, or all of them will
be restored on upgrade.  Leave the stop ('K') links alone.

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 - mdz



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