Re: Automatic start of daemons
Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org> writes:
> Hi,
> i have written an automated installation very much like the Solaris
> Jumpstart for Debian/GNU/Linux. Basically it works by taking
> the base.tgz extracting it to a partition it created from a config
> and then installing a configurable number/types of packages into that
> root. It all does this in a chroot environment. For all packages
> currently not debconfed i am using some kind of wrapper working around
> the different problems. (Questions, Reading for non existant STDIN/OUT
> replacement devices etc). Another problem now is that after the installation
> i end up with a couple of daemons running twice. Once in my running
> NFS-Root Debian installation and once in the chroot jail. Daemons binding
> to a specific port normally fail but some are running keeping the filesystems
> busy and producing arbitrary bugs/output for errors they see.
>
> I feel this is a very ugly solution so i would like to have a default
> way of telling the packages not to start their whatever daemon on installation.
The solution (hack?) used by the boot-floppies is to replace
start-stop-demon for the installation.
Not realy nice but working.
Anything better come up?
MfG
Goswin
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