On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:53:48AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > /etc/default/foo. I could tolerate it if packaged defaulted *on*, but it > seems the habit is to default off. And more importangly, as others have > said (every single time this comes up), there is an *existing* mechanism > to accomplish this that doesn't require modifying every daemon package: > invoke-rc.d and policy-rc.d.
The main case where this sort of thing is useful is the case where the package can't be shipped with a sane default configuration for some reason and the init script can't detect this situation. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]