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Hello,

Thursday, April 5, 2007, 5:39:20 PM, you wrote:

> Hello openembedded-devel,

>   By service, I mean /etc/init.d/* scripts, which all follow
> start/stop command convention, etc. They also can autostart on boot or
> not. This is actually the topic of this RFC - to call for discussion
> of guidelines the packages should follow in their wish to install
> their services for autostart on boot.

>   A specific case which makes me raise this question is irda-utils
> packages which includes irattach service, which it bothers to install
> for autostart. The result of this is that IrDA is being activated
> unconditionally on boot, eating power, and disallowing other processes
> to control IrDA port on their own. The only reason it doesn't hit many
> users is that service script itself broken and fails to detect IrDA
> port on most of machines.

  Ok, this was fixed.

  Comments for general improvements to service handling are still
welcome!

[]



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