Re: not starting packages at boot

[Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:53:48AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:

> /etc/default/foo. I could tolerate it if packaged defaulted *on*, but it
> seems the habit is to default off. And more importangly, as others have
> said (every single time this comes up), there is an *existing* mechanism
> to accomplish this that doesn't require modifying every daemon package:
> invoke-rc.d and policy-rc.d.

The main case where this sort of thing is useful is the case where the
package can't be shipped with a sane default configuration for some
reason and the init script can't detect this situation.

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