Beta Branch Confused on options wording in centmin.sh

I'm editing which services get installed by default--for example, I want to disable PUREFTPD and NSD DNS installation/running.

When I check the code, I see:

Code:

# Disable installed services by default
# The service is still installed but disabled by default
# can be re-enabled with commands
# service servicename start; chkconfig servicename on
NSD_DISABLED=n               # NSD disabled by default with chkconfig off
MEMCACHED_DISABLED=n          # Memcached server disabled by default via chkconfig off
PHP_DISABLED=n                # PHP-FPM disabled by default with chkconfig off
MYSQLSERVICE_DISABLED=n       # MariaDB MySQL service disabled by default with chkconfig off
PUREFTPD_DISABLED=n           # Pure-ftpd service disabled by default with chkconfig off

I'm a bit confused here--the comments say all these services are disabled by default, but the way the code reads it seems to say "Disable this? No, don't disable it". Also, I know when I installed Centminmod with default settings, I know NSD and the rest of these services were running--I noticed NSD running in `top` which is why I started digging into how to disable.

1) Are these services currently all not disabled by default?

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2) If so, maybe the comments could be changed to reflect that?

3) If I disable NSD install using `NSD_INSTALL=n`, do I also need to change the `NSD_DISABLED` variable to `y`?

4) I never use FTP and won't be giving anyone else FTP access either. Is there a way to disable the installation of PureFTPD? I see the `PUREFTPD_DISABLED` variable, but couldn't find an equivalent `PUREFTPD_INSTALL` variable like NSD has...

 

Thanks!

Understood, and agree in principle. But I don't plan on ever running my own DNS server--it's faster for end users to run it on Cloudflare, plus a lot more resilient and faster to update if I ever switch hosts. And if I ever change my mind, I can stand up a new centminmod server in about an hour by running my Ansible scripts that wrap around centminmod and customize everything the way I need it.

Holy smokes--totally missed that. That's AWESOME!!! Definitely will be using that going forward instead of a custom fork.

 

Oh, and this did seem a good opportunity to point out if the shell script got moved to ansible this wouldn't be an issue. People just comment/uncomment what they want installed and then rerun the Ansible playbook, and if it's not there it would be installed/removed. That's the whole idempotence idea.

I've been playing with it quite a bit, and it's really easy for non-tech users to use since it's all YAML and no programming unless you dive into the guts... just have a single config file that they edit to pick which programs/versions of nginx/php/mariadb they want.

I know you're pretty happy with the bash script, but if you ever want to explore this, I'd be happy to help you convert everything... It'd also make it more modular so it was easier to add/remove other 'plays' other people have created, like New-relic or Tarsnap installation...