In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >David Clymer wrote: >> >> The debian post install script probably doest go through the rc.* >> directories looking for runlevel entries since these are all just >> symlinks to a script in /etc/init.d/. All that it probably checks for is >> that the /etc/init.d/<whatever> script exists and is executable. Then, >> on the assumption that its generally a good idea to stop and start >> daemons when upgrading them, it does so. > >I just think it would be a good idea to not start something that's not >running anyway. Check to see if the proc is running and if it is, restart.
In a lot of cases, the service is stopped in the preinst script, and (re-)started in the postinst script. So your suggestion doesn't work. >> If you want to keep updates from starting the daemon, just chmod 644 it. > >That sounds reasonable...and simple. :) thanks. Reasonable, simple, and wrong :) As long as one start or stop link is still present, update-rc.d will not change the configuration. So just remove all start/stop links except in, say, runlevel 5 or so. Since the default runlevel is 2, the service will not be started ever. Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
