On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 01:12:25PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 06:05:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > I think that renaming and/or removing the init script symlinks is the > > > Right Thing To Do, but the tools we have for doing this are awful. I > > > think it would be a great solution if update-rc.d gained the following > > > features:
> > I think this should be a separate program, reserving update-rc.d for > > maintainer script use. But please, not 'chkconfig', which is an entirely > > unintuitive name. :) > ACK. What speaks against 'service'? :) If we use the name 'service', please also make it handle service starting/stopping, which is what the program of the same name is traditionally used for on Red Hat systems (and now on Ubuntu). On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 06:26:26PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > >> ACK. What speaks against 'service'? :) > > Too generic? Maybe something like 'debserv' would be better, because > > it's Debian specific. > Maybe I am wrong, but since (most of) the Debian-specific tools to deal > with rc.d scripts end in -rc.d, why not 'service-rc.d'? As already mentioned, I very much don't want these tools to be bound to sysv-rc, which I question the viability of in the long term. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
