This file is indexed.

prerm is in rsyslog 8.4.2-1+deb8u2.

This file is a maintainer script. It is executed when installing (*inst) or removing (*rm) the package.

The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.

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#!/bin/sh

set -e

# Stop the socket on remove so rsyslog is not restarted via socket activation
if [ -d /run/systemd/system ] && [ "$1" = remove ] ; then
	systemctl stop syslog.socket || true
fi

# Automatically added by dh_installinit
if [ -x "/etc/init.d/rsyslog" ] && [ "$1" = remove ]; then
	invoke-rc.d rsyslog stop || exit $?
fi
# End automatically added section