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[Rob Weir]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:28:47PM +0200, Markus Kolb said
> 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.

"breaks the installation"?  How so?  And in future he can use
update-rc.d or rcconf or something to restore it, without remembering
which one he removed.

-rob

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