One of the scripts (preinst, prerm, postinst, postrm) thAT may be included in a Debianbinary package. These scripts may creATe and/or remove symlinks, files or directories thAT, for some reason, could not be done directly by dpkg. Maintainer scripts frequently creATe or updATe the symlinks in the /etc/rc?.d directories and start, stop, or restart daemons. (2000-05-31)