Bad instructions in /etc/rc.X/README

[Bryce Nesbitt]

Binary package hint: sysvinit

Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Fully Patched

Following the instructions in /etc/rc2.d/README to disable a service results in an error.

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ubuntu:rc2.d> pwd
/etc/rc2.d

ubuntu:rc2.d> cat README
The scripts in this directory are executed each time the system enters
this runlevel.

The scripts are all symbolic links whose targets are located in
/etc/init.d/ .

To disable a service in this runlevel, rename its script in this
directory so that the new name begins with a 'K' and a two-digit
number, and run 'update-rc.d script defaults' to reorder the scripts
according to dependencies. A warning about the current runlevels
being enabled not matching the LSB header in the init.d script will be
printed. To re-enable the service, rename the script back to its
original name beginning with 'S' and run update-rc.d again.

For a more information see /etc/init.d/README.

ubuntu:rc2.d> sudo update-rc.d script defaults
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/script: file does not exist

ubuntu:rc2.d> update-rc.d
usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | SS KK]
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] .
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> disable|enable [S|2|3|4|5]
  -n: not really
  -f: force

The disable|enable API is not stable and might change in the future.