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

[Ben Walton]

+1 for switching the default...we should send a notice to the user list as
a courtesy though.

Thanks
-Ben
On Jan 7, 2013 6:54 PM, "Dagobert Michelsen" <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:

> 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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