Re: main conf file
Raffaele Sandrini <rasa@gmx.ch> writes:
> I have just a comment now. I love Debian, i really do but i has one
> major lack. I'm talking about a main rc file like the rc.config on
> SuSE. In this file should be informations wherer deamons/services
> should be started or not. That is necessary because, as strang it
> sounds, there is no reason that i use a package when i install it.
Most packages have the client and server separated out into separate
packages; if you don't want to run, say, a MySQL server, you can
generally get away with just not installing the mysql-server package.
> I don't understand why this isn't implemented in Debian bcause it
> would be so easy.
Does the file-rc package do what you want?
> I started now to add such options bymyself such as for mysql. There
> i have a "START_MYSQL=NO" in a /etc/rc.conf file and the init script
> checks if that is set.
There's starting to be a convention of putting that sort of
configuration into files in /etc/default. Also, if you don't want to
start a particular service in particular circumstances, you can
manually frob the symlinks in /etc/rc?.d to control what gets started
in which runlevel.
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