Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-02-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Miquel van Smoorenburg" wrote in part: >> A thought just hit me. >> What if we added a "update-rc.d enable|disable" command? > >This has already been wished for. See sysv-rc wish #214757 No, that's not what I mean. That i

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-02-01 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 22:10, I wrote: > Note that the expectation of the System V init system is > that every service have either an S or a K symlink in each > runlevel. If there is no symlink for a service in a particular > runlevel then the behavior of sysv's invoke-rc.d is undefined > for that

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Note that the expectation of the System V init system is >that every service have either an S or a K symlink in each >runlevel. If there is no symlink for a service in a particular >runlevel then the behavior of sysv's invoke

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-31 Thread Thomas Hood
Note that the expectation of the System V init system is that every service have either an S or a K symlink in each runlevel. If there is no symlink for a service in a particular runlevel then the behavior of sysv's invoke-rc.d is undefined for that service in that runlevel. Methods of shutting o

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-30 Thread mrl7d4
Thanks for all your replies. You've cleared this up for me. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-30 Thread Ben Yau
> -Original Message- > From: Adam Aube [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 1:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services > > > On Friday 30 January 2004 04:36 pm, Ben Yau wrote: > > I don'

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-30 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > What is the preferred way to add or remove a /etc/init.d/ service > from certain runlevels? 'ln -s' and 'rm', respectively. > The Debian Policy Manual and man pages suggest I should use > update-rc.d rather than manipulate the symlinks directly. They suggest that *De

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-30 Thread Adam Aube
On Friday 30 January 2004 04:36 pm, Ben Yau wrote: > I don't know if there is a preferred way. There are many ways and > choose the one you like. The convention I use is to rename the > file/link with a "no" in front. That reminds me of another way - rename the capital S or K to a lower case. S

RE: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-30 Thread Ben Yau
> -Original Message- > From: s. keeling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 12:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services > > > Incoming from Adam Aube: > > On Friday 30 January 2004 03:15 pm, [EMAI

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Adam Aube: > On Friday 30 January 2004 03:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What is the preferred way to add or remove a /etc/init.d/ service from > > certain runlevels? > > For adding, use the update-rc.d script. To remove, just manually delete > the symlink. You can use update-r

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-30 Thread Adam Aube
On Friday 30 January 2004 03:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the preferred way to add or remove a /etc/init.d/ service from > certain runlevels? For adding, use the update-rc.d script. To remove, just manually delete the symlink. You can use update-rc.d to remove, but you would need to

/etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-30 Thread mrl7d4
What is the preferred way to add or remove a /etc/init.d/ service from certain runlevels? The Debian Policy Manual and man pages suggest I should use update-rc.d rather than manipulate the symlinks directly. The man page for update-rc.d says, "If any files /etc/rcrunlevel.d/[SK]??name alrea