Troubleshooting boot problems

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:19:29 -0500
Patrick Goetz <pgoetz at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

> > 
> > Subject: Re: Troubleshooting boot problems
> > From: Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net>
> > Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:18:40 +0200
> > 
> > Any event can be emitted by any program using upstart's DBus API. 
> > 
> > IMHO it's not that important to know where a event gets emitted
> > (that's an implementation detail) but what it actually
> > means. 
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure I agree with this.  I understand that an event driven 
> system isn't linear (see previous discussion thread) but some services 
> do have linear dependencies; i.e. there are some services which can only 
> be started after others (yes, I realize this is an event dependency -- 
> it's still a linear relationship).
> 
> The example I provided should be adequate:  most iptables scripts start 
> by flushing the tables.  If I have a custom table I need/want to have, 
> it's important to me to know if ufw is running before or after my 
> script, since I don't want my iptables rules to be flushed when the 
> system is fully booted.  The question: does ufw run before or after the 
> rc2.d scripts? is a question about a linear ordering, and an 
> administrator should be able to determine this what looking at source 
> code or jumping through a bunch of hoops.  Perhaps a program like 
> pstree, but for events, would be useful?
> 
> Speculation about how to suspend a service is all well and good 
> (commenting out the start line seems logical) but there should be an 
> *official* way to do this to avoid problems down the road.
> 
> 

What about using the settings in /etc/default/ufw ?


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