On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Scott James Remnant <94...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > The feature planned for the next release is the support of override > files, which augment configuration files, so you'll be able to do: > > echo manual >> /etc/init/apache.override
I think that is a smart choice provided we are cautious about the frequency that this gets leveraged. I would expect the following cases to be true: 1) override apache.conf: start on runlevel [45] apache.override: start on runlevel [2345] result: start on runlevel [2345] 2) manual apache.conf: start on runlevel [45] apache.override: manual result: upstart does not control the service 3) scripts apache.conf: pre-start script \ #blahblahblah apache.override: pre-start script \ #foofoofoo result: ONLY pre-start script \ #foofoofoo Which is to stay, I would expect each stanza to act as an object that you could overwrite from the override file to avoid having to change the upstream configuration. Override files would never be part of a package as a rule, and thus could be fully owner by a user. Still, an external script or a configuration management system, would have to edit this file to start or stop a service. This is less than ideal, but solves the concerns about conflicting with packaging. Besides, this file should be nonexistent in the majority of cases. In my scenarios, having the existence of /etc/init/apache.manual trigger upstart to not automatically start or stop the service, but allow it to be manually started by the user, would be preferred. I recognize upstart is driven by the characteristics of desktop services and this could come off as configuration file cruft in those use cases. This would be preferable for developers to invoke a permanent programmatic change from a script. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94065 Title: init: add non-destructive means to disable a job -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
