If i want to restore a previous init.d scripts configuration and priority (for example during a multi-installation or a system recovery) i give the command:
awk '{ print "sysv-rc-conf --level " $1 " " $4 " " ($2 == "S" ? "on": "off"); }' /var/lib/sysv-rc-conf/myservices
I think it would be very useful to add a --restore option that would perform the same result but in this way...
2009-06-05 06:36:13 UTC in sysv-rc-conf