Re: where to move scripts from /etc/rc.boot ?

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 11:12:45PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > The hwtools package contains a simple /etc/rc.boot/hwtools script,
> > and the fortcoming policy will mandate its move to another directory.
> > 
> > I don't know if I understand all of it correctly - the script should move to
> > /etc/init.d/hwtools ? Should it be symlinked from /etc/rc?.d/ directories,
> > or just from /etc/rcS.d/ ? Is it possible to implement it with debhelper's
> > dh_installinit ? Should it end with .sh ? Should it parse its $1 arguments
> > like others do, for start|stop|restart|whatever?
> 
> Only rcS.d, not rcN.d. I don't know about debhelper. You can do it
> with update-rc.d directly though as in
> 
>     update-rc.d cnewsclean start 70 S . >/dev/null

Please *do* use update-rc.d and don't directly install it into
/etc/rcS.d; the latter will fail if the file-rc package is being used.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
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