Re: enabling/disabling daemons
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 06:52:08PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Noah L. Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> [2002-09-23 19:09:52 -0400]:
> > Every time I've seen this argument made in the past, the response has
> > always be "well why did you install the package if you don't want to run
> > it?" I don't think that reply is valid. There are plenty of sane
> > reasons why you might want to install a server package but leave it
> > disabled.
>
> Please help me out here. Could you expand upon some of those reasons?
> I can't really get a handle on it. I would have replied with your
> typical reply as well. If you don't want the daemon why install it?
Here are some candidates:
* I'm just installing it to have a look, I don't want to turn it on
yet.
* The daemon is packaged together with a client program and is
difficult to split (e.g. ssh).
* I'm installing in a chroot which I'm later going to boot into, and
don't want to start *any* daemons right now lest they do bad things
to my running system.
I'm sure others can come up with more.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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