On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 02:23:38PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:12:54 -0500 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > There are mechanisms by which the site admin can tailor the > > selection of daemons that start -- but the default should be I > > installed it, and I installed it for a reason, so I want the thing > > running. > > But perhaps I don't want it to run until after I modify the default > configuration. I may install a web server, but I may want it to serve > only over a LAN interface, and not over my public interface. I know I > can block this at the firewall, but I want defense in depth, and I'm > suggesting that there can be perfectly common use cases where I want > the thing installed, and eventually even running, but not just yet, or > right now.
The package maintainer makes the determination of whether a package runs by default or not. In my experience web servers and firewalls don't run, probably for reasons such as you describe, and the admin needs to go in and configure them, or in some cases edit a setting under /etc/default/<package> or elsewhere. Many packages do run by default, and I appreciate and have never had a problem with that. It would probably be reasonable to file a bug for a package that one thinks does the wrong thing (first checking for existing bugs of course), or maybe as a wishlist item. I flagged the first response to this thread as a possibly useful trick for the event that I might want to prevent a package from starting automatically, but likely will never use it. Ken -- Ken Irving -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org