On Thu 23 Oct 1997, Thomas Koenig wrote: > My suggestion would be that daemons should be started up according to > the runlevel the system currently is in. Interaction in postinst script > should only be done when absolutely necessary, IMHO.
i don't like this idea. it is very usefull, for normal operations (my setup is 2=minimum boot if two getty, 3=minimal network,4(default) everything,5,7-9 unused), but when repairing my system, i sometimes have to boot mode 2 or 3. repairing the system is enough work, extra checking if some newly installed programs go into the right runlevel is not a good way. i propose a slightly modified version : lets create a config file or so, where the sysadmin can say "new daemons should register in runlevels X Y Z". update-rc.d will read that config file, and do everything needed. this will also allow to say "don't register, i want to have manual control over daemons !". what do you think ? andreas
