[Fedora-packaging] Re: Services enabled by default when installed

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Sat Jan 5 20:29:32 UTC 2008


>>>>> "AT" == Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> writes:

AT> It probably very much depends on the service in question and the
AT> guidelines can't cover all possible situations, but I can think of
AT> quite a few cases where you'd like it enabled by default like
AT> messagebus, firstboot, crond, etc.

The package in question is kerneloops, a service which watches your
logs for oops output and notifies a userspace applet via dbus:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427586

I guess a big issue for me would be whether the service is
network-facing, since that means that installing and rebooting gives
you a service that you never enabled.

 - J<




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