On 2/13/07, Eric Shubes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Erik A. Espinoza wrote:
>> As long as there's 'svc' to control it, I see no need for putting
>> links into
>> /service/. For that matter, why is there a /service/ at all in the
>> toaster?
>> I'd be inclined to ditch it.
>
> Probably there since the Miguel Beccari days and hasn't been removed.
> You can rmdir it without side effect.
>
>> If someone wanted to disable a stock service permanently, will
>> 'svc -d'
>> persist after a reboot, or would they need to modify the qmail script
>> to run it?
>
> No, 'svc -d' is a temporary disable. The only way to permanently
> remove it is to rm the dir. I usually leave everything running and
> just use the firewall to control access.
>
> For example on my system I don't allow imap or pop3 without ssl. Since
> tcpserver doesn't take any resources unless it is in use, then there
> is no worries.
>
> Erik
>
I suppose you could create an init script that runs 'svc -d' to disable
whatever service you didn't want.
No no no no... this is not how you disable a service from running in
daemontools. You can change it's normal state to "down" and leave it
configured for future use.
(like in a post i made last year explaining how to clear the read proctile
status of daemontools from the processess list ... this one: readproctitle
service errors: ..................... )
If you do a svstat on the directory you will see status listings saying
normally up or down (only services in an abnormal state will list a message
saying they are different from the norm)
svstat /var/qmail/supervise/*
If you create a blank file named "down" in the service directory and then
shut the service down its normal state will become "down" and will not run
unless manually started... even after a reboot.
touch down /var/qmail/supervise/pop3-ssl/down
svstat /var/qmail/supervise/pop3-ssl
/service/pop3-ssl: up (pid 23468) 2 seconds, normally down <---- lets you
know it's different from how it should be
svc -d /var/qmail/supervise/pop3-ssl
/service/pop3-ssl: down 27 seconds
svstat /var/qmail/supervise/pop3-ssl
George S
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