Petter Reinholdtsen schrieb: > [Michael Biebl] >> I was wondering, how to correctly disable a service with insserv. > > I believe the correct way is to rename the S?? to K?? to document that > the service is disabled.
It's still a bit clumsy though and hard to handle. If we can do it better, we should try to do so. >> Renaming S?? to K?? on the other hand doesn't seem to make sense >> with insserv, as the priorities are not fixed and maybe confuse >> insserv when it calculates the stop priorities. > > I do not believe it confuses insserv. Which priority do you choose for K??? The current value of S?? e.g. S20 -> K20. Imho this doesn't make sense, as insserv would reorder it. Could you post the commands (including arguments) how to disable a service correctly? >> Imho insserv should have a option to disable a service completely. >> An idea would be to store this information in a state file >> /etc/init.d/.depend.disabled. > > Duplicating the information seem like a bad idea to me. You know, because the S?? -> K?? handling is so clumsy, a lot of sysv init scripts started to provide ENABLE= config variables via /etc/default/$service, which is an even worse alternative and makes everything very inconsistent. Having a clearly specified, well documented, easy way of disabling a service with insserv, looks like a better approach to me. >> insserv -D --disable would disable the service and add it to the >> state file insserv -e --enable would enable the service and remove >> it from the state file. > > Such feature should be specified in the update-rc.d API, and > implemented all over. Doing it only for insserv is not a good way for > Debian, as we need to have a common way for all boot systems. That is sysvinit only, really (I don't count file-rc as a boot system). Other systems, like runit, initng, upstart (in non sysv-compat mode), don't use the S?? -> K?? mechanisms for disabling jobs anyway, so I think this argument is moot. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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