On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> I would suggest to take a look at the LSB-style headers of
> the run level scripts in /etc/init.d . Many do not define
> symlinks for all run levels. udev (just as an example) only
> defines a symlink for S. This is surely not a user error.
It also mean
[Harald Dunkel]
> Whats about all the services in /etc/init.d defining a "S" or "K"
> link for just a subset of all run levels? Are these packages broken?
I suspect it depends, but packages failing to define if the service
should be enabled or disabled in runlevel 1-5 are most likely broken.
Most
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
Removing the symlinks send you into undefined invoke-rc.d territory,
and thus you can expect anything, even a restarted service. :)
Understood. My request is to define it. Undefined behavior is a
bad thing in computing.
Whats about all the services in /etc/init.d d
As far as I can see, the issue here are incorrect user expectations.
If you do not want the services to start from init.d/rc during boot,
you need to disable the services by changing the S* symlinks to K*
symlinks. Removing the symlinks is not going to work the way you want
it. Disabling service
Hi Henrique,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
I recall there was a logic line in invoke-rc.d we could invert, so that when
the target state is unknown (i.e. user did the wrong thing and REMOVED the
links instead of using K links) we would assume the service is disabled
instead of enabled.
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > I have disabled several services using "insserv -r", e.g.
>
> Eh, that is not the supported way to disable services. The start
> symlinks should be changed to stop symlinks to disable a service the
> supported way. Try something like this inste
[Harald Dunkel]
> I have disabled several services using "insserv -r", e.g.
Eh, that is not the supported way to disable services. The start
symlinks should be changed to stop symlinks to disable a service the
supported way. Try something like this instead (or 'update-rc.d
script disable' if you
Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.86.ds1-61
I have disabled several services using "insserv -r", e.g.
nfs-common
nfs-kernel-server
samba
They are not supposed to be started or killed by init. Instead they are
under control of heartbeat. The LSB-style headers of these runlevel
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