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

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi folks,

Am 07.01.2013 um 16:48 schrieb İhsan Doğan <ihsan at opencsw.org>:
> Am 07.01.2013 16:26, schrieb Maciej  Bliziński:
>> We're currently defaulting to automatically start services after
>> installation. For example, when you install MySQL packages, the
>> database starts up without any additional commands. For MySQL this is
>> harmless enough, but as a general rule it goes against intuitions and
>> expectations of sysadmins.
>> 
>> I propose that we change the default to not start services by default.
> 
> I fully agree on that. I've set on all my machines the autostart to "no" and as most admins, I don't like services starting automatically. Most package repositories are working this way.
> 
> Our target are not the end-users. Our users are admins and even those who using the first time Solaris and OpenCSW can handle services, that do not start automatically.

Definitely. IMHO we should just reverse the default for autostart_daemons in csw.conf
to be off by default.


Best regards

  -- Dago

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