hi there,

i am making the transition to the new rc.d thingie
and of course am happy to see the system becoming a bit
more admin friendly.

is there an "official" way to start a service as someone else?
most of my daemons for example use the "service" login class.

for example, in the old rc.local:

if [ -x /usr/local/sbin/nginx ]; then
        echo -n ' nginx'
        su -c services root -c "/usr/bin/env -i /usr/local/sbin/nginx"
fi


also, as far as i understand it, all executable scripts in /etc/rc.d/
are executed at startup and stopped at shutdown.

why not reuse the /etc/rc.conf style "set these to "NO" to turn them off.
otherwise, they're used as flags" approach?

this way i could say in /etc/rc.local.conf:
nginx=NO

and /etc/rc.d/nginx would be skipped at startup

or is the preferred way simply removing the execute bit?
i could still decide running it manually later..

-f
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live long and prosper.  -- spock

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On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:25:40 +0100, frantisek holop <minusf@obiit.org> 

 It's not how it works, it won't start anything unless you add it to the 

 The framework is still not documented and there are several uncommitted 
 bits.

-- 
 Antoine

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thanks for pointing that out, now i see.
what confused me was that there was no default $rc_scripts

was there a reason not to be consistent with /etc/rc.conf services?

-f
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yossarian lives...

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Hi Frantisek,


That might or might not happen at some point,
but it will not obsolete the rc_scripts variable,

Ordering.

S01iptables, S66cron, S80sshd?
No, thanks.

Yours,
  Ingo

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Yes, the principle of least surprise !

We're not debian, so some packages include several components. Ditto
for dependencies.
Let's say you install a bunch of things in a hurry.

Then you find out, when you reboot a machine, that you're suddenly blessed
with five new daemons that you did not *explicitly request*.

Good luck systematically checking /etc/rc.d for those surprises after
a new package install...

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