Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.
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- Subject: Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.
- From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
- Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 18:53:40 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87d2mdifh7.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
- In-reply-to: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1310311324320.691@tglase.lan.tarent.de> (Thorsten Glaser's message of "Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:27:12 +0100 (CET)")
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* Thorsten Glaser:
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2013, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> Curiously, a lot of system administrators do not do this correctly
>> using sysvinit, causing system daemons to start unexpectedly after
>> installing package updates.
>
> What *is* the correct way, anyway?
Renaming the S symlinks to K symlinks. update-rc.d is intended for
packaging scripts only.
> So I ended up writing 'exit 0' as the first line into the
> respective /etc/default/ file to disable them… or changing
> the initscript directly (also 'exit 0' as first line after
> the shebang), leading to conffile prompts.
Yes, that's what I usually do as well because it's more reliable.
As far as I'm concerned, this is the number one reason why the Debian
init system needs an overhaul.
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