Re: Policy Weekly Issue #4/13: Starting daemons in the postinst scripts

1997-10-24 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On Thu 23 Oct 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > Topic 13: Starting daemons in the postinst scripts like my proposal to topic #12 : if you want to query the admin, please recognize some special file or variable "e.g. /etc/dpkg/fastconfig", do not start the daemon, and add a line to a log file, s

Policy Weekly Issue #4/13: Starting daemons in the postinst scripts

1997-10-23 Thread Christian Schwarz
Topic 13: Starting daemons in the postinst scripts STATE: DISCUSSION The following policy has been suggested: If a package installs a `daemon' that is usually started via an /etc/init.d/ script, the package should query the system administrator after the installation (in the post