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Re: dh_installinetd



Brian May <bam@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:03:13AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
[...]
>>> I am missing "Enabled: yes/no" and would like to derive from strict
>>> RFC-822-format and allow comment-lines.
>> [...]
>> I was too fast. 'Enabled: yes/no' cannot be set in there, if we want
>> to have mange thes files as dpkg-conffiles.

> I called it "Disabled: ".

> Maybe "Initially-Disabled: " would be better, for services which the
> maintainer feels most people won't want or need, or could potentially be
> a security hole, but wants to make it easy to enable if the adminstrator
> really wants.

An easy and intuitive way around this would be to enable/disable
service /etc/inetd.d/foobar by removing/generating
/etc/inetd.d/foobar.disabled.
                cu andreas



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