/etc/init.d

[Tom H]

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:47 AM, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
>
> Perhaps I need to provide more details. I installed the xrdp package, using
> apt-get. It appeared to be the package that provided the fucntionality I
> needed, but it proved to be very fragile, and unstable. I sent email to the
> support list for xrdp, where it was sugested that I try the git ersion, ass
> it is more stbale. Did an apt-get removee xrdp, downloaded, complied, and
> did a make install on the new cersion, started it by hand, and it does seem
> to be stable, so now I need t install int on the machine. Manualy put the
> startup script in /etc/init.d, looked at the replies to this post, and did
> the following:
>
> root at pm2v40:/etc/init.d#  update-rc.d xrdp defaults
> update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/xrdp missing LSB information
> update-rc.d: see <http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>
>  System start/stop links for /etc/init.d/xrdp already exist.
>
> Now I understnad the LSB part, but this implies that the links that were
> installed for the Ubuntu xrdp package did not get removed, when I di the
> uninstall. Is this correct? If so, why  not?

You should've used "apt-get purge" because "apt-get remove" doesn't
remove the configuration files.