Bug#107862: newly installed services start automatically
> So the question is, is it really necessary for new services to be
> started automatically? Usually it isn't really a problem, but on the
> off chance something goes horribly wrong, having an unusable system
> isn't fun. (...and if I've just missed some option to dselect / apt /
> dpkg in the docs, is there a good reason that this behavior is the
> default?)
Well, it not necessary. I can think of one example (the isdnutils) where the
startup scripts scan for a particular string in the configuration files and
if found, bails out with the message that configuration is needed.
You ofcourse delete the line once you have configured the cards. There are
other packages that do this also. So it seems you should setup the init.d
scripts during the install but have them check to see if the necessary
configuration has been done.
HTH,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> actually separated those who can barely regurgitate what they crammed over
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