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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] add LSB header to xen-watchdog runlevel script [

On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 11:08 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Olaf Hering writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] add LSB header to xen-watchdog 
> runlevel script"):
> > On Fri, Jul 23, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Olaf Hering writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] add LSB header to 
> > > xen-watchdog runlevel script"):
> > > > This tells the insserv program to create a symlink in the specified
> > > > runlevels. xdm for example has only '5', because X11 is only supposed to
> > > > be started in runlevel 5.
> > > 
> > > Yes, but the question is: do we want to start the watchdog by
> > > default ?  Previously we didn't.
> > 
> > Thats up to the packager of the binary package.
> > Or do you mean there should be no runlevel script in the first place?
> 
> I meant: adding these lines would seem to be likely to cause some
> systems to automatically start the watchdog when previously they would
> not have done so.  I wanted to know whether that was a good idea.

IMHO no -- enabling a watchdog should be an explicit admin action.

Ian.



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