On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:27:03PM +0100, Sylvain LE GALL wrote: > Hello, > > In one of the package i maitain i have a config script which begin by > asking if the service attached to this package need to be run. I use a > variable ( stored in /etc/default/mldonkey -- LAUNCH_AT_STARTUP="yes" ) > to determine if i need to run the service or not. > > If the variable is set to yes, the init script launch the service, > otherwise it does nothing. > > The user ask me if i can use update-rc.d to create/remove symlink > depending on the former LAUNCH_AT_STARTUP value. > > What is the standard solution for doing this in debian ?
The standard is to install the initscript, and not care about other stuff. If the sysadmin doesn't want the thing to start at startup, he can remove the symlinks; update-rc.d does not recreate symlinks that have been manually removed. However, if you have solved this differently in the past, it would be a bug not to convert the LAUNCH_AT_STARTUP thing to what it needs to be, since you need to preserve user configuration. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!" -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.
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