On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 04:43:39PM +0100, Andreas Bombe wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:37:38AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Craig Small <csmall@eye-net.com.au> wrote: > > > > > The point is, should there be a single suggested method that all daemons > > > use? I think it would be nice that, for example, a user knew that > > > putting a file /etc/<package>/no_start_<daemon> worked for most > > > packages. > > > > Putting an "exit 0" into the init.d script has always worked for me. > > It is suboptimal. Maybe you don't want the daemon to start at boot but > you want to start it manually. You can't use the init script then > without removing the "exit 0". You could do something like if [ -e /etc/nologin ]; then exit 0 fi And, if you want it configurable, make it check some config option (like no_start_daemon_boot or whatever) -- Peter Mathiasson | GPG Fingerprint: E-Mail: peter@mathiasson.nu | A9A7 F8F6 9821 F415 B066 Web : http://www.mathiasson.nu | 77F1 7FF5 C2E6 7BF2 F228
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