On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 'start most things minus a few':
>
> rm /etc/rc?.d/S??{package1,package2}
>
> 'start only what I say here':
>
> find /etc/rc?.d -name 'S*' ! -name 'S??package1' | xargs rm
I fancy that line takes a not a guru-sysadmin about 2 hours of reading
manpages to figure out. That can't be "it".
> Equivalently, you can edit /etc/runlevel.conf to do the same thing with
> file-rc.
You can, yes. But IMO the idea is to be able to:
* quickly(!) turn on/off a certain service
* quickly start a service just for once
> So there are already two mechanisms for doing this, and some folks
> are working on a fancier one that is dependency-oriented instead of using
> strict ordering.
It's not a question of not-available mechanisms - they've been around for
at least 4 years now. It's only that debian hasn't adapted any.
*t
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