Re: The right way to not start daemons
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:20:27AM +1100, Craig Small wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > I suppose there is a way of using debconf here too, perhaps there are
> > other ways.
>
> I've always done update-rc.d -f $package remove. This works for any
> pacakges, but the only way to make it start again would be to use
> update-rc.d $package defaults, which may not be appropriate for that
> package.
[...]
There is a simple solution, that does not need any changes to existing
packages -- except dpkg -- avoids modified conffiles and has the advantage
that a warning message is issued each time someone is trying to start (or
stop) a disabled daemon.
All we need is to create a init.d script called disabled or somesuch with
the following contents:
---8><-------------------------------------------------------------------
#! /bin/sh
echo "\``basename $0`' has been disabled in \`/etc/init.d'."
exit 0
---8><-------------------------------------------------------------------
Then "update-rc.d <basename> disable" would rename the original init.d
script to <basename>.disabled and create a symlink from
/etc/init.d/disabled to /etc/init.d/basename.
When installing new init.d scripts dpkg would replace <basename>.disabled
instead of <basename> if <basename> is a symlink to /etc/init.d/disabled.
Reenabling a service is obviously done by simply renaming
/etc/init.d/<basename>.disabled back to /etc/init.d/<basename> which
would be done by "update-rc.d <basename> enable".
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