Re:What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015)
by regularfry on Saturday June 11, 2016 @01:11PM
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Perhaps, and I realise this may be a revolutionary thought, this is not somewhere systemd needs to exert itself. The `system-preset` interface is barely any better than `policy-rc.d` from the point of view of someone installing a package.
Re:What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015)
by JdeBP on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @08:17AM
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You'll find yourself in opposition to Major Hayden, the author of the headlined article, who wrote in May:
> automatic management of running daemons shouldn’t be handled by a package manager.
There's also the argument that determining whether a daemon should or should not be automatically started very much is the province of the service management subsystem, as automatic service start/stop/restart is very much what service management properly deals in.
Re:What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015)
by regularfry on Thursday June 16, 2016 @04:20PM
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You're confusing interface with implementation.
Perhaps
as (as can be seen) some people hope one day Ubuntu will respect, per its manual?* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=772555
* http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/en/man5/systemd.p...
Your several cases are, respectively, the aforegiven for the administrator-chosen per-service controls,
for the fully auto-starting system (unless specifically overridden) specified by the administrator, for the fully auto-starting system (unless overridden by administrator or specific packaging) specified by the operating system builders, for the fully disabled requiring manual start system (unless overridden by administrator or specific packaging) specified by the operating system builders, and for the fully disabled requiring manual start system specified by the administrator.