]] Drake Wilson | (Sorry for the duplicate, Bob; forgot to send to list first time.) | | Quoth Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com>, on 2011-03-02 17:00:19 -0700: | > Having daemons started automatically at installation time is a very | > nice feature of Debian IMNHO. | | Is there any harder data on which behavior various proportions or | segments of the Debian user populace expect here?
I don't have hard data, but I see a fair amount of ops people complain about this feature in Debian. I believe it's impossible to write a policy-rc.d implementation that denies running the daemon on initial installation (but not on upgrades). The use case for this is: - install daemon - install configuration using puppet/chef/cfengine/etc - start daemon or hook daemon into tool that keeps it running (monit, god, etc) (FWIW, I like starting daemons on installation too, but I can see why people want the option not to). -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ei6o4t6h....@qurzaw.varnish-software.com
