On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:45:59PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have just a comment now.
> 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
> :-)?
as for the major bigtime kahuna startup config file, it's
/etc/inittab
("man inittab" for info.)
and depending on the default runlevel you choose
for startup (see inittab) the script
/etc/init.d/rc
is run with the actual runlevel (2, probably) as the sole
argument, as in
/etc/init.d/rc 2
the rc script (in /etc/init.d/) looks in the directory
/etc/rc.<runlevel>/ and executes all the kill scripts
(anything starting with K*) with an argument "stop", then
it runs all the start scripts (anything starting with S*)
passing them an argument of "start".
will that do?
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