On Thu 23 Oct 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > Topic 13: Starting daemons in the postinst scripts
like my proposal to topic #12 : if you want to query the admin, please recognize some special file or variable "e.g. /etc/dpkg/fastconfig", do not start the daemon, and add a line to a log file, so the admin can see what might be necessary to do. i want to minimize user interaction, and i think this way isn't bad. > Wouldn't it be good if every script in /etc/init.d would start with a > shell > variable that's set to 0 or 1, depending on whether the daemon should be > started at boot up time or not? For example: stop ! /etc/init.d/ script should only be modified if it is realy necessary, not by default. there is an easy machanism to enable and disable starting/stoping of daemons : update-rc.d we shall not have two systems (update-rc.d and this variable) for the same purpose, as this will create double work to check if xxx is running, and will create extra confusion. andreas
