On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:41:36AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Simon McVittie (s...@debian.org) [110724 23:52]: > > On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 at 21:59:40 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > even init.d has a documented (and what's > > > more, actually *working*) implementation of not starting daemons at > > > boot. It's called 'remove the ******* symlink'. > > > > If you remove them, they'll be recreated by the next upgrade; the right > > Only if you remove all. If you keep at least one symlink (e.g. only > remove the startup symlinks) they are not recreated.
Still, I think it's quite fair to say that the current system is both baroque and underdocumented. If you were to ask a typical user, and likely most developers, what the correct way was to disable a service, I doubt you'd get a consistent or correct answer. I'll admit that I gave up in frustration and added "exit 0" to a few scripts in my time. Do we actually have a standardised interface that can disable a service and then reenable it so that it is in exactly the same state as before it was disabled, without requiring black magic and/or prior knowledge of the correct runlevels? update-rc.d certainly isn't it. Having a "service foobar enable|disable" type of action would be a major improvement, and save the need for horrible "ENABLED=yes" type settings in /etc/default, or manual editing of scripts. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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