Re: Daemon init scripts and apt-get [was: Re: red worm amusement]
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:44:50PM +0200, Marko Kreen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:05:25AM -0700, Dale Southard wrote:
> > Why not use something like the IRIX ``chkconfig'' system: Provide a
> > simple program that takes the ``name'' of a service and then checks an
> > external file/files for ``on'' or off status of each service, and
> > returns 0 if on, 1 if off. Then have each init.d script do something
> > like:
> >
> > case "$1" in
> > 'start')
> > if /etc/chkconfig myservice; then
> > ...
> > start myservice
> > ...
> > fi
>
> Would not it be better to put this login in rcS script? That
> way the services can be manually started if needed (eg. for
> testing).
>
If you want to login before services start in single user mode then change:
# Set to yes if you want sulogin to be spawned on bootup
SULOGIN=yes
in /etc/default/rcS
Mike
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