On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:05:15 +0100
Rainer Weikusat via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
> Steve Litt <slitt@???> writes:
> > Rainer Weikusat via Dng said on Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:30:16 +0100
> >
> >>init.d scripts are config file and as such, supposed to be under
> >>user control. This includes that a user may remove them.
> >
> > Or put exit 0 at the very top.
>
> I used to do that in the past but some woman working for the Mainz
> university computing center convince me of the other method. Her
> arguments where:
>
> - this render starting the serice manually via init.d script
> impossible
>
> - such changes are easily forgotten and possibly, cause a lot
> of headscratching because of this while the renamed script is
> visible in the filesystem without having to look at its
> content
That could be 'fixed' by adding a message to console/log that you have
done this to stop the script working. It is just two lines to
comment out if you want it to work in future.