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Re: How to prevent daemons from ever being started?



On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:49:57PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 15 May 2006, Emanuele Rocca wrote:
> > I don't have an answer for the "don't start upon new install" problem, 
> > though.
> 
> I do.  invoke-rc.d support is *mandatory* now in Debian, which means that
> for Sid and Etch you can write a policy-rc.d file that forbids starting new
> daemons before you configure them.
> 
> There are no such scripts packaged yet, although they are quite simple to

Sure, the runit-run package includes a policy-rc.d since ages.  The
runit init scheme's policy is to not run any init scripts at all through
invoke-rc.d; so not on packages installation, upgrade, or on system boot.

Regards, Gerrit.



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