[Michael Biebl] > Whoever conceived and introduced this idea of disabling services via > /etc/default/$package deserves to be tarred and feathered. It is a > horribly broken idea. Unfortunately quite a few people adopted this > scheme.
I suspect it is because update-rc.d do not support a simple way to disable a service independently of rc.d system used. If it supported something like 'update-rc.d disable/enable foobar', there would be need to make up ones own way to enable/disable services. > There is a clear and defined way to disable sysv init scripts from > being started a bootup: Remove the S?? symlink from the runlevel and > create a corresponding K?? symlink. Tools like sysv-rc-conf or guis > like bum will easily manage that for you. And this fail for file-rc, making documenting how to enable or disable the service harder than it should be. Time to extend update-rc.d? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
