Re: Starting daemons in the postinst scripts

1997-10-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Thomas Koenig writes: > [My subscription to debian-policy is on the way, but in the meantime, > please CC: any replies to me. Thanks.] > > I just caught this on Christian's excellent weekly report, and I'd > like to add my 0.01 Euro. > > My suggestion would be that daemons should be started up

Re: Starting daemons in the postinst scripts

1997-10-24 Thread Thomas Koenig
[I still need CC:s. Thanks :-] >i propose a slightly modified version : >lets create a config file or so, where the sysadmin can say >"new daemons should register in runlevels X Y Z". That sounds excellent. I've always been a bit wary about the "install and start everything at once" approach ta

Re: Starting daemons in the postinst scripts

1997-10-24 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On Thu 23 Oct 1997, Thomas Koenig wrote: > My suggestion would be that daemons should be started up according to > the runlevel the system currently is in. Interaction in postinst script > should only be done when absolutely necessary, IMHO. i don't like this idea. it is very usefull, for normal

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 li

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 (i

Starting daemons in the postinst scripts

1997-10-23 Thread Thomas Koenig
[My subscription to debian-policy is on the way, but in the meantime, please CC: any replies to me. Thanks.] I just caught this on Christian's excellent weekly report, and I'd like to add my 0.01 Euro. My suggestion would be that daemons should be started up according to the runlevel the system