Hi, On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:33:49PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > A technique that I've used in packages with this issue is to install the > rc*.d symlinks by default, but also have the init script check a file in > /etc/default to see whether or not to actually start at boot. If you > install a default /etc/default file that says not to start, you accomplish > the same thing, don't have this problem, and make it just as easy for > users to enable the package.
Thanks for your suggestion. I already thought about it, but I fnind it quite confusing when I cannot run /etc/init.d/foobar by hand as soon as it is not enabled on startup. Cheers, Nicolas
