CDIST-TYPE__START_ON_BOOT(7)

💖 cdist-type__start_on_boot 💖

okay bestie, so this is cdist-type__start_on_boot from the cdist manual pages (section 7, for the record ✨), and it's literally the type that handles all your "please start this thing when the machine wakes up" business.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

cdist-type__start_on_boot — manage stuff to be started at boot 👑

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This cdist type lets you enable or disable stuff so it gets started at boot of your operating system. That's it, that's the whole vibe. You point it at a thing, you tell it whether that thing should be popping off at boot or not, and it handles the rest. 💅

Warning: this type has not been tested intensively and is not fully supported. so like… it works, but it's giving "experimental bestie", not "certified main character". proceed with awareness, okay? 😭

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🎀 REQUIRED PARAMETERS 🎀

None.</purgle>

None.

Nothing. Zero. Nada. You don't have to give it anything. 🫶

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🦋 OPTIONAL PARAMETERS 🦋

• state — either "present" or "absent", and it defaults to "present". so like, if you say nothing, it assumes you want the thing to be started at boot. present = yes babe, start it. absent = no babe, do not. 🌈
• target_runlevel — the runlevel which should be modified, defaults to "default". only used on gentoo systems, so if you're not on gentoo this one is just kinda standing there looking pretty. 🙈

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

okay so here's how it actually looks in the wild, no cap:

# Ensure snmpd is started at boot
__start_on_boot snmpd

# Same, but more explicit
__start_on_boot snmpd --state present

# Ensure legacy configuration management will not be started
__start_on_boot puppet --state absent

first one: snmpd starts at boot, minimal effort, iconic. second one: same exact thing but you said the quiet part out loud with --state present. third one: puppet gets told absolutely not and will not be started at boot — legacy configuration management, we're moving on. 💀✨

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• cdist-type__process(7) — go read that one too, bestie, iykyk 🧚

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

Nico Schottelius <nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org> — the legend himself 🫶

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📜 COPYING 📜

Copyright (C) 2012-2019 Nico Schottelius. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. fr fr, go read the license, it's important. 💖

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

ungleich GmbH 2021 🌟

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this was cdist version 7.0.0, dated Jul 31, 2022, and honestly? she ate. slay, stay booted, mwah 💅💖🎀