Re: administration of initscripts
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:02:19AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> > > I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I
> > > have never wanted to "manage" init scripts. I always wonder. What
> > > are people trying to do?
> >
> > Hi Bob,
> >
> > For an example of where one will want to "manage" the init scripts,
> > take a look at the thread in debian-user with subject "Serveur with
> > encrypted partition : 2 steps boot." started by erwan@rail.eu.org .
>
> If you are not using a printer, it is also security 101 to disable it's
> listening service.
>
> I quite like OpenRC but am currently looking into file-rc, which I would
> prefer if direct changes to it were kept but I will have to find the
> time to work out how to do that without using commands like update-rc.d
> which are not my preference.
>
> I guess I simply prefer the OpenBSD method of an include file that
> would override runlevel.conf and may have to look into adding that to
> file-rc or a fork at some point.
file-rc "works", but only just. I would not be surprised if it was
removed for the next stable release--it's simply incompatible with
dependency-based booting. I hacked insserv support into it for
wheezy so it would continue to work with LSB init scripts, but it's
not particularly sensible to edit by hand--you basically have to
use update-rc.d to preserve sane script ordering. Static ordering is
no longer supported. When you are using dynamic ordering, file-rc
is just the same as sysv-rc except you have no parallelisation of
boot scripts, and no rc?.d symlinks. But the file-rc system is far
less flexible when static ordering is no longer used.
Note that there is ongoing work to get OpenRC integrated; it's at
the point where it's possible to boot a Debian system with OpenRC.
I'm sure that help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Roger
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