On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:02:19AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I > > > have never wanted to "manage" init scripts. I always wonder. What > > > are people trying to do? > > > > Hi Bob, > > > > For an example of where one will want to "manage" the init scripts, > > take a look at the thread in debian-user with subject "Serveur with > > encrypted partition : 2 steps boot." started by er...@rail.eu.org . > > If you are not using a printer, it is also security 101 to disable it's > listening service. > > I quite like OpenRC but am currently looking into file-rc, which I would > prefer if direct changes to it were kept but I will have to find the > time to work out how to do that without using commands like update-rc.d > which are not my preference. > > I guess I simply prefer the OpenBSD method of an include file that > would override runlevel.conf and may have to look into adding that to > file-rc or a fork at some point.
file-rc "works", but only just. I would not be surprised if it was removed for the next stable release--it's simply incompatible with dependency-based booting. I hacked insserv support into it for wheezy so it would continue to work with LSB init scripts, but it's not particularly sensible to edit by hand--you basically have to use update-rc.d to preserve sane script ordering. Static ordering is no longer supported. When you are using dynamic ordering, file-rc is just the same as sysv-rc except you have no parallelisation of boot scripts, and no rc?.d symlinks. But the file-rc system is far less flexible when static ordering is no longer used. Note that there is ongoing work to get OpenRC integrated; it's at the point where it's possible to boot a Debian system with OpenRC. I'm sure that help would be appreciated. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130415091325.gg23...@codelibre.net
