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)
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