Re: Daemon init scripts and apt-get [was: Re: red worm amusement]
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Yes, make the default configurable if you have your debconf setting to
> "medium" or "low" and default to "Don't start" otherwise.
THAT is actually a good idea.
> > > Personally, I think there should either be a /etc/do-not-start/<package> dir that
> > > packages' init scripts check for non-existance before starting, or a
> > > commented entry in the config file that the init script checks for
> > > non-existance before starting...
> >
> > Well, now we're getting into heavy policy stuff.... I think it would be hard
> > enough to get all the daemon postinst scripts to work in run and no-run mode.
>
> Actually, if we could get them all to source an sh script that
> contains that logic, all changes to policy would be self-contained.
Please you two, do your homework. Search for invoke-rc.d in debian-policy;
Since the sysvinit maintainer is MIA, you probably got a few weeks to
give suggestions.
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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