Re: The right way to not start daemons

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>]

Hi,

  [ Optionally not starting servers on boot, with added per server
    granularity, as well as a single action to turn off all servers ]

>>"Peter" == Peter Mathiasson <peter@mathiasson.nu> writes:

 Peter> You could do something like
 Peter> if [ -e /etc/nologin ]; then
 Peter>     exit 0
 Peter> fi

======================================================================
 progname=$(basename $0)
 check_start () {
    if [ -e /etc/defaults/no_start_any_daemon ]; then
        exit 0;
    fi
    if [ -e /etc/defaults/no_start.d/$progname ]; then
       exit 0;
    fi
 }

 case "$1" in
   start)
      check_start;
      ....
      ;;
   force-start)
      ....
      ;;
   restart)
      check_start;
      ......
      ;;
   force-restart)
      ......
      ;;
   stop)
      ...
    *)
        echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$progname  {start|stop|restart|force-restart|force-start}"
        exit 1
    ;;
esac
======================================================================

	Put this in all /etc/init.d scripts.

	manoj
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