Re: Packages providing a daemon/service and configuration

2002-03-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 15:23:45 +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > > The current behaviour is far more sensible to a non-expert user than > the opposite behaviour, where he installs (say) apache, then bombards > the list with messages with the subject 'broken apache - doesn't > start' so that he can be tol

Re: Packages providing a daemon/service and configuration

2002-03-22 Thread timothy bauscher
> for i in `find . -type f -name S90telnetd` ; do > mv $i `echo $i | sed s/S90telnetd/K90telnetd` ; > done > > There is probably a much easier way of doing it than that, but it > works, and this is my opinion, after all. update-inetd --disable telnet just did it today, found it in the *upda

Re: Packages providing a daemon/service and configuration

2002-03-21 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most (all?) packages providing a daemon or other service will start > it when installed, without asking the user first. Is there a reason? > I often want to have such services ready for use (with documentation > and configuration files), but not s

Packages providing a daemon/service and configuration

2002-03-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Most (all?) packages providing a daemon or other service will start it when installed, without asking the user first. Is there a reason? I often want to have such services ready for use (with documentation and configuration files), but not started immediately, i.e. not running by default. One exam