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Re: enabling/disabling daemons



On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 06:44:37PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 06:29:09PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > We do provide that option, namely file-rc.  The best of both worlds.
> 
> file-rc doesn't prevent the problem of disabled daemons being started by
> the package upgrade process, does it?  It doesn't seem like it contains
> any data other than what's already represented in the /etc/rc?.d
> directories.  But I do admit to some level of ignorance about it.

It does contain the same data as the rc?.d tree.  Were you looking for an
additional on/off switch that would be ANDed with the runlevel data?  Or to
avoid the runlevel system entirely?

-- 
 - mdz



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