Upstart services cannot be enabled/disabled

[Joe Digilio <[email protected]…>]

Enabling/disabling an upstart service at boot time is currently not possible in Bcfg2. Upstart does not provide an easy way to do this. But there are two ways I know of to disable an upstart service:

1. change the "start on" line in /etc/init/<service>.conf
2. mv /etc/init/<service>.conf /etc/init/<service>.conf.disabled
3. rm /etc/init/<service>.conf

It seems like the best way to do this would be method 2. Upstart.py would need to do something like this to disable a service:

1. Tell the client to rename /etc/init/<service>.conf to a known name, eg /etc/init/<service>.conf.disabled-by-bcfg2
2. Insert into the Bundle:

   <BoundPath name="/etc/init/<service>.conf" type="ignore"/>
   <BoundPath name="/etc/init/<service>.conf.disabled-by-bcfg2" type="ignore"/>
   

Maybe it would be better for the <service>.conf Path entry to be of type "nonexistent"? Of course we would need to ensure the rename occurs first.

Thoughts?

[solj]

As far as I know, you enable/disable upstart services via the file contents of the .conf file. This is similar to the way launchd works. So, I think that doing method 1 is the choice which makes the most sense in this case. Removing/moving the file will also work, but I think it is more explicit if you simply manage that file's contents.

[solj]

Closing for now. Reopen if you think we need to address this (I think upstart profiles would be the way to go).