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[Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

I wonder if it would be possible for a spell to change the default
answers to the init.d questions somehow. That would help with init
scripts which /always/ should be installed and enabled... do we have any
of those?


Jeremy said, "Just updated init.d from test."
Andrew said, "... what sorcery version?" And, "...if you cant stand to
have your box break from time to time, use test or stable..."



On Tue, 2004-14-12 at 17:57 -0800, Andrew wrote:
> First of all, please file bugs, complaining to the mailing list (while
> it can get some attention for a short period of time) doesnt leave a
> permanent record of what needs to be done and requests are often dropped.
> 
> Second, what sorcery version? This is not only important for the team
> to fix but for what users will be effected. If this is only a problem
> with devel sorcery (as i suspect it would be as we havent touched the
> code in test or stable in 2 major releases) then I would recommend you
> indicate that as it would otherwise be assumed that this effects everyone,
> which is not the case.
> 
> Also, remember devel sorcery is devel sorcery and if you cant stand to
> have your box break from time to time, use test or stable, thats what
> they're there for, we have devel to bring up these problems before the
> rest of the userbase runs into them :-)
> 
> Third, I would hardly say the defaults are "evil and bad", I would say
> enabling every service out of the box, and having your box hacked is
> evil and bad. Cant imagine any other distros that do things like that.
> 
> I would say defaulting to not installing services and not enabling them
> is safe and conservative.
> 
> Sorcery doesnt know the difference between init.d scripts belonging to
> init.d that are critical and other non-critical scripts, and I dont think
> it should. I would suggest that the init.d spell install the critical
> scripts with its own scheme as the sorcery support is written for the
> common case of a spell installing some service like apache, or bind,
> which by default SHOULD be disabled if the init script is even installed
> at all! But dont blame me if mysql starts up on your box for no reason
> and you get hacked because its out of the box configuration isnt secure.
> 
> -Andrew
> 
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:12:30PM -0500, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> > Just updated init.d from test.  The defaults set everything to 'n'. This 
> > means you get an unusable system.  Please fix this as it hosed mine.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Jeremy

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