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Re: enabling/disabling daemons



On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> I want to create a standard way to say 'this service should not be
> started'.  I don't want to change the way the init system works at all;
> it works fine.  I'm sick of installing a package and removing all the
> start links from /etc/rc?.d/, only to see the package get automatically
> started next time I upgrade it.

invoke-rc.d forbids the start of daemons out-of-runlevel. It does what you
want out-of-the-box.  BTW, removing a start link is NOT the same as adding a
stop link, and invoke-rc.d knows that.

> Every time I've seen this argument made in the past, the response has
> always be "well why did you install the package if you don't want to run
> it?"  I don't think that reply is valid.  There are plenty of sane

It isn't. We now have the tools to fix this *bug*.

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