Hi Tollef, On 12-06-01 at 09:55pm, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Jonas Smedegaard > > > Hi Aaron, > > > > On 12-06-01 at 11:22am, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > > Just because I have installed a service package, doesn't mean I > > > want the service immediately running after installation. I would > > > like to spend the necessary time as an administrator to configure > > > and secure the service to my liking, before starting the service. > > > > Debian goal is - as you probably know already - for packages to work > > out of the box. For daemons this means they are started by default. > > The problem here is of course for those that really need a bit of > configuration before they're usable. > > [...] > > > You can override the default of daemons using policy.d. > > A problem with using policy-rc.d is you don't know whether a service > is being started because it's the initial install or if it's because > of an upgrade. I'll sometimes not want the service to start on > initial installation (because chef is just about to plop its > configuration into place), but if it's an upgrade, then please just > restart the service. You could setup your local policy to check if the service exist in e.g. /etc/local-ok-services/ and then when you've customized or security-checked or whatever each service you do a touch /etc/local-ok-services/$service Or did I misunderstand? (We haven't spoken much in person, but I regard you as pretty clever so am surprised that you describe this as a problem and I feel it so simple to solve...) Regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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