On Tue, 2017-07-04 at 21:46 +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 16:39:03 -0400
> Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > What's the official way to disable a service in sysvinit? In this
> > case
> > I want to disable sshd so I can put it in runit.
> >
> > I know I could rename /etc/rc5.d/S02sshd to zS02sshd, but I seem to
> > remember there's some more official way to do it.

> Hi Steve, I think you want 'update-rc.d -f <init-name> remove' where
> <init-name> is name of the init.d script

Alternately you can disable it, if not removing, with
update-rc.d ssh disable

see man update-rc.d about runlevels to disable/remove it from.

HTH