Re: The right way to not start daemons
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:13:03PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
> > 'start most things minus a few':
>
> > rm /etc/rc?.d/S??{package1,package2}
>
> Ok, but commenting out lines in a file is better:
>
> 1) you can see what you've commented out!
>
> 2) it's easy to switch on and off - you don't have to recreate
> symlinks.
>
> 3) you can compare it with a distributed default file.
Again:
apt-get install file-rc
> > Equivalently, you can edit /etc/runlevel.conf to do the same thing
> > with file-rc. So there are already two mechanisms for doing this,
> > and some folks are working on a fancier one that is
> > dependency-oriented instead of using strict ordering.
>
> Yes, but they are two clunky, low level mechanisms. Putting something
> on top of it probably wouldn't be too hard, for those who want it.
How would your proposed allow/deny configuration files be less low-level or
clunky than file-rc's configuration file supposedly is? Have you tried it?
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- mdz
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