On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 08:59:12 -0400, Steve wrote in message
<20181021085912.69aef2b0@???>:

> This is why I asked the question about permanently shutting down a
> sysvinit /etc/init.d/rc5.d script. If, at the same time you or a
> package fired up a runit supervisor for the daemon, the sysvinit
> daemon starter for that daemon would be shut down, it would take care
> of the problem except when somebody or something makes an error.

..'mv -vf /etc/rc5.d/S$i$p /etc/rc5.d/K$(100-$i)$p ' style?
Read 'man update-rc.d ' like Jochen said, or the output of:
'for i in $(ls /etc/{i,r}*.d/README ) ;do less $i ;done '
if you wanna do it die hard way on init=/bin/sh boot ups.

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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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