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[Markus Kolb]

On 06.10.2004 13:00, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 06, 2004 11:38 AM, Markus Kolb
> <ubuntu-ml at tower-net.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On 06.10.2004 05:04, Rob Weir wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>>When I boot offline, it fails very quickly; I think because I have no
>>>available DNS servers so it just quickly fails to resolve.  If you
>>>want to stop it from running at boot, run "rm /etc/rcS.d/S51ntpdate".
>>
>>The correct way would be
>>$ sudo update-rc.d -f ntpdate remove
> 
> 
> No, no, no, no, no. :-) Sorry, but this is a common misconception.
> 
> The above will work until the package is next upgraded, at which point the
> symlinks will magically reappear when the maintainer scripts run
> update-rc.d. The *correct* way is, as Rob said, to remove the symlinks.

Yes, I know this but I don't see the link remove as the correct way. It 
breaks the installation and you have to know and remember which link and 
stuff you have removed by hand.
I use a script with my changes which is excuted after each update and it 
uses the Debian utilities to do this.
If I don't run the script I have a system with defaults.
Maybe in a year he wants the default ntpdate run on startup. Do he 
remember that he has removed the link a year ago?
I don't think so and maybe he will post here again why ntpdate doesn't 
work...

So I say removing init-links by hand is trash.

Bye
Markus