On 17/08/14 12:48, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Aug 17, Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> wrote:
>> It is not
>> always possible to come with a working default configuration or to
>> build one in postinst.
>
> If unconfigured software really cannot fail cleanly then the package can
> install it without enabling the service.
> Or systemd can notice that there is no config file and hence not try to
> start the daemon.
FYI: systemd:
[Unit]
ConditionPathExists=/etc/foo.conf
or sysvinit:
if ! [ -e /etc/foo.conf ]
then
echo -n "(not starting, you need to create /etc/foo.conf)"
return 0
fi
This seems better than the ENABLED=1 anti-pattern: start the service if
and only if it has been configured.
S
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