Thorsten,
I don't see the suggestion having been made of removing the executable bit from
the initscript? It should ensure the script is never run and the K and S
symlinks are removed.
Does that achieve what you wanted?
Best wishes
Mark
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:19:59 -0400
Jesse Smith wrote:
> As I understand it Thorsten is looking for a way to have a service
> installed, that can be run or stopped manually. But the service is
> never started/stopped automatically when switching runlevels. Is that
> correct?
I think he might have
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, Tom H wrote:
> >> But you want to disable an init script, start it manually, change
> >
> > (or start the daemon manually without that init script)
>
> That's irrelevant:
No, it’s not.
As I already wrote, start-stop-daemon can do more for
daemons running under different use
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 8:11 AM Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, Tom H wrote:
>>> It means “do not call this init script in any runlevel”,
>>> which *ought* to be very obvious.
>>
>> "do not call this init script in any runlevel" can be understood
>> as "kill it in any runlevel".
>
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, Tom H wrote:
> > It means “do not call this init script in any runlevel”,
> > which *ought* to be very obvious.
>
> "do not call this init script in any runlevel" can be understood as
> "kill it in any runlevel".
No, absolutely not, NO, NO, *NO*. *GAH!*
> But you want to di
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 12:16 AM Ian Jackson
wrote:
> Thorsten Glaser writes ("Bug#975591: update-rc.d disable"):
>> On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> It depends what's meant by "disable".
>>
>> Which part of “disable an ini
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 11:44 PM Thorsten Glaser
wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, Tom H wrote:
>>> There *absolutely* HAS to be some way to disable an init script
>
>> It depends what's meant by "disable".
>
> Which part of “disable an init script” did you not understand?
Perhaps all of it :)
>>
On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Thorsten Glaser writes ("Bug#975591: update-rc.d disable"):
> > On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, Tom H wrote:
> > > It depends what's meant by "disable".
> >
> > Which part of “disable an init script” did you not
Thorsten Glaser writes ("Bug#975591: update-rc.d disable"):
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, Tom H wrote:
> > It depends what's meant by "disable".
>
> Which part of “disable an init script” did you not understand?
This is really rather rude. It seemed to me
On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, Tom H wrote:
> > There *absolutely* HAS to be some way to disable an init script
> It depends what's meant by "disable".
Which part of “disable an init script” did you not understand?
> If it means "disable from starting at boot", then
No.
> If it means "disable from st
>> The only way supported in update-rc.d to disable a service is
>> update-rc.d disable
>
> … but not this.
>
> “update-rc.d disable” does *NOT* disable a service. Instead, it
> sets it to “stopped in all runlevels”, which is evidently *not*
> the same.
>
> I don’t care if “update-rc.d disable” get
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