What's the insserv way of disabling services

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Michael Biebl]
> I was wondering, how to correctly disable a service with insserv.

I believe the correct way is to rename the S?? to K?? to document that
the service is disabled.

> Renaming S?? to K?? on the other hand doesn't seem to make sense
> with insserv, as the priorities are not fixed and maybe confuse
> insserv when it calculates the stop priorities.

I do not believe it confuses insserv.

> Imho insserv should have a option to disable a service completely.
> An idea would be to store this information in a state file
> /etc/init.d/.depend.disabled.

Duplicating the information seem like a bad idea to me.

> insserv -D --disable would disable the service and add it to the
> state file insserv -e --enable would enable the service and remove
> it from the state file.

Such feature should be specified in the update-rc.d API, and
implemented all over.  Doing it only for insserv is not a good way for
Debian, as we need to have a common way for all boot systems.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen