Re: Disabling some services indivually and easily (nut)
schaefer@alphanet.ch (Marc SCHAEFER) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following issue:
>
> if the cable to the UPS is removed, nut will shutdown the server.
>
> This is perfectly correct, when the UPS is supposed to be there. But
> when it has failed and is not in house ?
>
> First, I thought that nut could consider the system boot as a special
> case, and if the cable/UPS is not present, just quit gracefully,
> possibly with a warning mail. However, this could be dangerous in some
> environments. Thus the comportment of nut always shutting down when
> configurer is correct.
>
> So, another idea came to me, which was to use run-levels (e.g. normal
> with nut as init 2, and without nut as init 3. Selection done easily
> through a LILO menu). However this adds a lot of complexity, and this is
> not wanted.
>
> So, what about a kernel option `disable-services=nut,apache,whatever'
> which would be processed by Debian init script and disable the named
> services ?
>
> What do you think ?
>
> thank you for any idea!
How would that reduce the complexity? You can pass the runlevel at boot
without having a special menu option.
Regards,
Andrei
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