For the first time I was asked by a daemon I installed to set a flag in there.
What's it for? Is it a newish concept?
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Basically, /etc/default contains some parameters that the end user or administrator is likely to change, rather than embedding the values in the actual boot scripts. In this way, changes will persist even if you upgrade the package and the boot script is replaced. It's a Debian concept and it's adopted only by certain packages. | |||
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The files in this dir basically contains configuration parameters. For example, if you have a service at /etc/init.d/test, the script first look at /etc/default/test before starting/stopping the test service, searching for config parameters. | |||
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