On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 17:26 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Is there a canonical procedure for either the %post or the caller of > rpm/yum to start any daemons that may have been installed? Doing a > service foo start is a no-no in %post, as the install may be happening > in a context that is not a normal install. But there must be a way to > give users happy fluffy bunnies and working active software after they > install a daemon in a "running machine" context. > > Pointers welcome - this is probably a FAQ but googling around I can't > find anything that looks like the appropriate answer. It's explicitly something that you're not supposed to do. As you say, there are lots of non-normal install contexts in which packages get installed. And all of those use the same toolchain for installing packages as the regular install path. Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
