"Noah L. Meyerhans" <noahm@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 07:30:17AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > Just these so far?
> > $ ls /etc/*/*_not_to_be_run
> > /etc/apache/apache_not_to_be_run /etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run
> > Any more?
>
> Ahh, no! Please! I never thought this was a nice way to disable
> services. It just doesn't feel clean at all. I much prefer the way
> packages like snmpd handle this. /etc/default/snmpd is sourced by the
> startup script and sets a variable SNMPDRUN=yes. Change yes to no if
> you don't want to run it.
>
> OTOH, isn't this the kind of kludge that invoke-rc.d is supposed to fix?
> This *does* exist in policy. From section 9.3.3.2:
> The program invoke-rc.d is provided to make it easier for package
> maintainers to properly invoke an initscript, obeying runlevel
> and other locally-defined constraints that might limit a
> package's right to start, stop and otherwise manage services.
> This program may be used by maintainers in their packages'
> scripts.
>
> noah
Esspecially since one might want to have a runlevel with networking
and ssh for normal use and one without networking for when one signs
packages with his usb stick. Or imilar cenarios.
MfG
Goswin