Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Miquel van Smoorenburg said: 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

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-04 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miquel van Smoorenburg said: OK, although both solutions work, (I guess - I haven't tried the second solution) it still seems kludgy to me. If I use the debian supplied tool to remove a service from startup _totally_, and I use a debian supplied tool

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-04 Thread Colin J. Ingram
Phil Dyer wrote: Nope. Because that is not how it works or has ever worked. Your expectation is skewed from reality (sorry). Hate to keep beating this. But my response is: Just because it's not how it's ever worked doesn't mean it's right. Can you give me reasoning as to *why* it works like

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-04 Thread John Hasler
/phil writes: It does... what? If it checked to see if I've turned off a service... It won't restart the service if you have left at least one K link in place. Debian provides several tools for turning services on and off. My favorite is sysvconfig (since I wrote it). -- John Hasler -- To

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-04 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler said: It won't restart the service if you have left at least one K link in place. Debian provides several tools for turning services on and off. My favorite is sysvconfig (since I wrote it). thanks, John. I'm checking out sysvconfig

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
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

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-02 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miquel van Smoorenburg said: 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,