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  • From: "Wyatt Draggoo" <wyatt AT draggoo.com>
  • To: rcook AT wyrms.net
  • Cc: seth AT tautology.org, sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org, afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Experiences of a newcomer to SMGL
  • Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 09:07:12 -0700 (PDT)

Heh. I didn't realize we had runlvedit... I'll have to take a look. Is it
built to take control of everything added to the init scripts? Or do
spells have to explicitely take advantage of it?

>
> Isn't that what runlvedit is for? Or are you more looking at the actual
> starting and stopping of run scripts in addition to the setting of the
> which ones to link where?
>
> CuZnDragon
> Robin Cook
>
> On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 19:28, Wyatt Draggoo wrote:
> > > I second this: no init services by default. We should query the user
> > > during CONFIGURE if they need the service to start by default and set
> the
> > > execute modes of the init script respectively.
> > >
> > > The mere act of casting shouldn't change the number of running
services
> > > either on next reboot or right after install without some explicit
> > > permission from the admin.
> >
> > I can think of a number of reasons why I agree to this. But the main
one
> > is that most (if not all) services need to be configured before they are
> > secure, of even useful. I'd prefer if nothing was turned on until
after I
> > had a chance to taylor the config to my system.
> >
> > Perhaps SMGL needs a wrapper around run scripts, like RedHat's
chkconfig.
> > This would make it easy to manage the execution of run scripts after
> > casting spells.
> >
> > Wyatt
> >
> > --
> > Wyatt Draggoo
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Wyatt Draggoo




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