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Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default



On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:59:46AM +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Serafeim Zanikolas <sez@debian.org> writes:
> > sysv-rc-conf works for any symlink-based system.
> 
> If you want to make sure that only carefully chosen services are ever
> running then you still need to maintain your own /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d

For symlink-based init systems, renaming init script symlinks to S*/K* should
be enough to ensure that only certain services ever run.

> and keep it in sync with sysv-rc-conf.

sysv-rc-conf is just a utility that updates the symlinks. It doesn't have any
state of its own against which one has to sync.

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