On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 21:28:39 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 09:21:46PM -0700, David Barrett was heard to say:
[...] > > Essentially, I'm writing a script to generate ready-to-deploy bootable > > qemu images, One of the inputs of the script is a list of packages to > > install. This works fantastic, with the key exception that some of > > those packages (ssh and lighttpd, specifically) start up running > > processes. These processes need to be stopped before I can dismount the > > raw image and zip it up for instant future deployment. > > I've never used it myself, but I believe that invoke-rc.d was supposed > to solve this sort of problem. (I don't know much more than that, but > it looks like the manpage might have pointers) Also, see /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.policy-rc.d.gz. Executive summary: If you want to prohibit all invoke-rc.d-mediated start actions, create /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d as an executable shell script that exits with a status of 101. If you find a package whose initscripts do not honor this, file a bug. (I learned this on this list, but I cannot find the relevant message now and therefore I cannot give credit to whoever posted it originally. Sorry...) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
