[NTLUG:Discuss] Package Install Starting Services

[terry]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Dennis Myhand <dmyhand at ednaisd.org> wrote:
> In respect to our discussion about the installation of packages starting
> a service without asking the administrator/package installer, or giving
> them the chance to configure the service before it is started, I
> remember installing Apache 2.0 on a (shudder...) Windows Server2000 box
> and Apache asked if it was to be installed as a service, and then asked
> if I wanted to start apache when the install finished, or later after I
> had edited http.conf.  It seems a shame that the same thing cannot be
> done on Linux that is done on Windows.  Just my observation.  Peace, Dennis

That is the way it works during a Slackware install.



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