Re: enabling/disabling daemons
Noah> Basically, I just want a sane and standard way of doing what
Noah> sshd and postgresql (and undoubtedly others) already do. I
Noah> don't want to replace how we manage runlevels.
The problem of upgrading disabled daemons has been addressed by
invoke-rc.d, or am I wrong?
As for the mechanism _how_ particular daemons can be disabled, most
packages (fortunately) do it more cleanly than those two. For
example:
kronstadt:~$ fgrep SERVICE /etc/default/fetchmail
# set to true. STOP THE SERVICE BEFORE DISABLING IT!
SERVICE=true
kronstadt:~$
If you want to recommend "one true way" (and later get it into policy)
please start from there...
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