Re: Rationale for /etc/init.d/* being conffiles?
On Sat, Dec 20, 1997 at 05:49:38PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> From: Scott Ellis <storm@gate.net>
> You can deactivate OR CHANGE THE BEHAVIOR of the program by modifying
> the script.
>
> You can already deactivate it by uninstalling the package. The real
> configuration file will be kept and will be used next time you install the
> package (if you have not purged it, of course).
Assuming the package contains ONLY the functionality you wish to disable.
For example, netstd includes the NFS server daemons, which you can disable
by editing /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs (IIRC, you have to enable them
specifically). You can remove netstd to disable NFS, but you lose
a lot more than just the NFS server.
> This is just another example that shows that /etc/init.d/diald should be a
> conffile, but examples are just examples. Why a script that is useful to
> be modified should imply that *all* scripts are useful to be modified?
Why aren't all scripts useful to be modified?
hamish
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