On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 01:37:44PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:27:03PM +0100, Sylvain LE GALL wrote: > > Hello, > > > > In one of the package i maitain i have a config script which begin by > > asking if the service attached to this package need to be run. I use a > > variable ( stored in /etc/default/mldonkey -- LAUNCH_AT_STARTUP="yes" ) > > to determine if i need to run the service or not. > > > > If the variable is set to yes, the init script launch the service, > > otherwise it does nothing. > > > > The user ask me if i can use update-rc.d to create/remove symlink > > depending on the former LAUNCH_AT_STARTUP value. > > > > What is the standard solution for doing this in debian ? > > The standard is to install the initscript, and not care about other > stuff. If the sysadmin doesn't want the thing to start at startup, he > can remove the symlinks; update-rc.d does not recreate symlinks that > have been manually removed. > > However, if you have solved this differently in the past, it would be a > bug not to convert the LAUNCH_AT_STARTUP thing to what it needs to be, > since you need to preserve user configuration. >
Hello, You think i should simply remove LAUNCH_AT_STARTUP from the init script... Maybe it should be wiser indeed... In fact, mldonkey server could be run as normal user or as sysadmin ( just like fetchmail ). It depends on what does the user want to do with it ! So i think i should let LAUNCH_AT_STARTUP... But i keep thinking on it. Kind regard Sylvain LE GALL
