Bug#647075: please support RUN in /etc/default/apache2
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Hello Harald,
On 30.10.2011 08:36, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Would it be possible to support an option "RUN" or
> "START_DAEMON" in /etc/default/apache2, similar to
> other packages?
some people, even within Debian, hate the duplicated method to enable or
disable daemons by setting a variable in /etc/default/. The problem with
it is, it is completely redundant and home-brewed since every package
may (or may not) do so at its own by setting its own custom variable (or
not).
On the other hand there _is_ a generic interface to disable services at
boot time: Removing the symlinks from your default runlevel. See below.
> Apache2 is supposed to be started by other means on
> my systems. Creating /etc/insserv/overrides/apache2
> appears a little bit too complex just to make sure
> that it is not started at boot time.
You can just remove the symlink, for example by using insserv -d or
update-rc.d remove.
Doing
update-rc.d -f apache2 remove
or
insserv -r apache2
has the same effect.
Note, I am not authoritative for what will happen with your report.
Possibly such a variable could be added nonetheless. However, note there
is /etc/apache2/envvars too. The general idea is to be able to start
multiple instances at boot time. Hence we may further discuss whether
one wants to enable/disable the apache http daemon per-instance in
/etc/apache2/envvars or globally in /etc/default/apache2 only.
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with kind regards,
Arno Töll
IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC
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