[csw-maintainers] Proposal: switch off autostarting of services

[Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński]

2013/1/7 Yann Rouillard <yann at pleiades.fr.eu.org>:
> I also agree about disabling auto-start after installation.
>
> But by the way, are we talking only about auto-starting after first
> installation or also after upgrade ?
>
> Under Solaris 10, autostart_daemons=no will only prevent daemons from
> auto-starting at first installation. After, the previous state of the daemon
> will be restored no matter what is the value of autostart_daemons.
>
> I personnally like this behaviour (and in fact proposed the patch for it):
> after I correctly configured a service, I prefer it to be automatically
> restarted on upgrade, but I put the subject on the table so we're sure to
> agree on the same thing.

I think we mean the auto-start after installation, not upgrade.
Preserving the state throughout an update would be an intuitive
behavior.

Maciej