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["Wyatt Draggoo" <wyatt AT draggoo.com>]

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
> > 
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