First, a quote from the (Ubuntu) manpage for update-rc.d (pointedout in the comments on a recent entry ):

The correct way to disable services is to configure the service asstopped in all runlevels in which it is started by default. In theSystem V init system this means renaming the service's symbolic linksfrom S to K .

Here is one difference between a developer and a sysadmin:to a developer, something is disabled if it only runs harmless code oronly runs code

The alternate title for this entry is 'how to persuade us to never buyyour hardware again'.

The old Sun had both a general server business and a general OSbusiness, and people used both; they bought Sun servers to run lotsof operating systems and they ran Solaris on lots of non-Sun hardware.It is now clear that Oracle is nothing like this. Solaris nowexists only to run on Oracle hardware ,and Oracle hardware exists only to run Solaris and a few otherOracle-supported operating systems