On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:04 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Franklin PIAT wrote: > > Can Debian satisfy them both ? Well... why not ! > > We already do. Someone who was concerned about such things could write > a policy-rc.d which checked to see whether a particular daemon was > allowed to start based on any number of critera, including whether it > depends on the network, whether it has been installed for a long time, > or whether one of the configuration files it ships has been modified.
I wasn't aware of policy-rc.d > > The policy could state that network service's init.d script must check > > for a file named "/etc/no-paranoia"[1]. > > Anything which sets up a network-listening daemon should almost > certainly depend on $network, so assuming LSB compliant init scripts, > no changes would even be required to figure out what a network service > was. This is a nice bonus which comes with LSB dependencies. Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
