Bug#914755: /etc/default/dnsmasq ENABLED=0 does not work

[Michael Biebl]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:29:48 -0600 Brent S Elmer  wrote:
> Package: dnsmasq
> Version: 2.79-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Setting ENABLED=0 in /etc/default/dnsmasq does not prevent dnsmasq from
> starting at boot.  It appears that dnsmasq will start at boot regardless of
> what ENABLED is set to.
> 

Those ENABLED flags are a sysvinit anachronism and its usage is
discouraged (I would go as far and call it an anti-feature).

Simply use "systemctl disable dnsmasq" to prevent it from being started
during boot.



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Bug#914755: /etc/default/dnsmasq ENABLED=0 does not work

[Brent S Elmer]

Package: dnsmasq
Version: 2.79-1
Severity: normal

Setting ENABLED=0 in /etc/default/dnsmasq does not prevent dnsmasq from
starting at boot.  It appears that dnsmasq will start at boot regardless of
what ENABLED is set to.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dnsmasq depends on:
ii  dnsmasq-base [dnsmasq-base]  2.79-1
ii  init-system-helpers  1.55
ii  lsb-base 9.20170808
ii  netbase  5.4

dnsmasq recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dnsmasq suggests:
ii  resolvconf  1.79

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/dnsmasq changed [not included]
/etc/dnsmasq.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information