Hi folks,

Am 07.01.2013 um 16:48 schrieb İhsan Doğan <[email protected]>:
> Am 07.01.2013 16:26, schrieb Maciej  Bliziński:
>> We're currently defaulting to automatically start services after
>> installation. For example, when you install MySQL packages, the
>> database starts up without any additional commands. For MySQL this is
>> harmless enough, but as a general rule it goes against intuitions and
>> expectations of sysadmins.
>> 
>> I propose that we change the default to not start services by default.
> 
> I fully agree on that. I've set on all my machines the autostart to "no" and 
> as most admins, I don't like services starting automatically. Most package 
> repositories are working this way.
> 
> Our target are not the end-users. Our users are admins and even those who 
> using the first time Solaris and OpenCSW can handle services, that do not 
> start automatically.

Definitely. IMHO we should just reverse the default for autostart_daemons in 
csw.conf
to be off by default.


Best regards

  -- Dago

-- 
"You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to 
do something,
and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896

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