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has caused the Debian Bug report #107862,
regarding newly installed services start automatically
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Package: general
Version: N/A; reported 2001-08-06
Severity: normal
I installed another package today (pdnsd, not that it matters) that
has a startup script in /etc/init.d, and I've been wondering about
this for a while. Newly installed services like this automatically
start as part of the installation process. I can think of a few
problems with this. The first is just a matter of convenience; the
admin may want to configure the program before starting it. More
severe is a problem from personal experience: on installing the ipx
software, the default settings were apparently so mismatched with
the network my machine was on as to cause a kernel panic. Upon
restarting, the package system was so screwed up (since critical
files were open when it crashed) that I resorted to a full reinstall.
So the question is, is it really necessary for new services to be
started automatically? Usually it isn't really a problem, but on the
off chance something goes horribly wrong, having an unusable system
isn't fun. (...and if I've just missed some option to dselect / apt /
dpkg in the docs, is there a good reason that this behavior is the
default?)
Mike McGuire
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Hi,
I'm closing this bug ("newly installed services start automatically") which is
rightfully tagged "wontfix", as there is no information in the bug and the
merged bug, why it's tagged that way and so it's useless to keep it open.
(Not sure if this is documented in policy or not, but I also think it's
obvious that packages should work out of the box :) (If this can be done in a
secure fashion.)
Thus closing because it's obvious. It's also obvious that we wontfix this.
(IMHO.)
regards,
Holger
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