Re: Too many default services on

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Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
There does not seemed to be any rule to whats enabled and what's not.
Package maintainer's and or developers seem to decide for them self whether service
is enabled/disabled by default.

My understanding is rpm's which install a service do *not* start the service in %post via chkconfig for all the reasons cited in the thread (i.e. the sys admin or owner decides what should be running, how it's configured,e etc. merely installing an rpm should not start a hidden service). There are a minority of exceptions, services which must run to make the system usable, these are well known. It is permissible to perform a condrestart in %post, but this is just respecting the existing configuration on the box.

These are the guidelines as I've always understood them. I wonder if part of the problem lies in the new LSB blocks which have been added to many initscripts without a complete understanding of what some of the boilerplate actually does, e.g. Default-Start.

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