on Tue, Feb 19, 2002, Raffaele Sandrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > > I love Debian, i really do but i has one major lack. > > I'm talking about a main rc file like the rc.config on SuSE. In this > file should be informations wherer deamons/services should be started > or not. That is necessary because, as strang it sounds, there is no > reason that i use a package when i install it. > > I don't understand why this isn't implemented in Debian bcause it > would be so easy. > > I started now to add such options bymyself such as for mysql. There i > have a "START_MYSQL=NO" in a /etc/rc.conf file and the init script > checks if that is set. > > I think there is a good reason why this isn't done so. Can anyone tell > me them :-)?
It's far more straightforward (and much less risky) to add/remove files or links from a directory than to go munging the contents of a file. The Debian system is largely self-healing in the face of operator intervention. I'd suspect the SuSE config files are heavily labled as to what format does or doesn't work. If you're looking for configuring services, there's the 'update-rc.d' utility, or you can manually adjust symlinks under /etc/rc?.d. There's a long history of this debate in the SysV vs. BSD style init scripts. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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