One way of having some daemons not start at boot (e.g., if we only use
our printer once a year) is to remove certain /etc/rc?.d/ links.

But the downsize is later, unless one keeps records, one isn't quite
sure of just what tampering one has done in /etc/rc?.d/

So in /etc/default/* we can set NO_START_AT_BOOT=1 etc., at least we
can see and comment what we did.

However there still is a way to know what we tampered with in
/etc/rc?.d/: instead of telling the user to just remove some links,
have them instead ln -s to /dev/null or better: /etc/init.d/disabled perhaps
,
an empty file mode 555.

And those link manager programs could do the same.

So then one could see clearly that S20cwdaemon -> ../init.d/disabled
etc.  Or use DISABLED for extra clarity.

Not as efficient as removing the link, but at least one can see what
one did later.


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On 05-Aug-05, 16:22 (CDT), Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
> One way of having some daemons not start at boot (e.g., if we only use
> our printer once a year) is to remove certain /etc/rc?.d/ links.
>
> But the downsize is later, unless one keeps records, one isn't quite
> sure of just what tampering one has done in /etc/rc?.d/

mv S20foo s20foo

Steve
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Dan Jacobson writes:
> But the downsize is later, unless one keeps records, one isn't quite sure
> of just what tampering one has done in /etc/rc?.d/

Sysvconfig keeps records.
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Dan Jacobson wrote:
> One way of having some daemons not start at boot (e.g., if we only use
> our printer once a year) is to remove certain /etc/rc?.d/ links.

Hmmm, does init respect policy-rc.d? If so, it'd be fairly easy to do it
that way...


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On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 12:15:29PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Dan Jacobson writes: 
>
> Sysvconfig keeps records.

Sweet. Now I get a Red Hat-like service command as well. Nice.

regards

Andrew


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