On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 11:54:05AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: >> At present there *is* no reliable sysadmin interface for enabling/disabling >> services. update-rc.d is not it; many admins have been using 'update-rc.d >> -f remove' for years, but this is /wrong/ and it is /documented/ that this >> will cause the links to be readded on package upgrade. policy-rc.d is not >> it; the spec for this is bloated and I've never heard of an admin who's ever >> bothered implementing anything more than a "don't start any services in a >> chroot" policy using this. And /etc/default/* isn't it; no consistent >> variable naming, not implemented for all services (and shouldn't be), so >> it's not scriptable, so it requires vi. >> >> So the mv command above *is* the current method. And we're in desperate >> need of a better one. > > Right, this is the technical problem to solve: find one (handy) method > to enable/disable services and "bless" it as the recommended one.
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/chkconfig ... -- Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTin1+=xxs7ezab+apt2vgrzq7rttan5b5roym...@mail.gmail.com
