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Re: adding scripts to /etc/init.d ?



From: "Gale Stafford" <gstafford@bitwiser.com>

> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:32:50 +0200
> myster sen <myster-sen@gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > then you should cd to /etc/rc3.d and create a link via:
> > ln -s ../init.d/pump S99pump
>
> Thank you!! I used your instructions, and I only had to tweak one thing to
make it work. I had to change the file permissions on /etc/init.d/pump to
match the permissions on the other files in /etc/init.d. (chmod 755 ...)
That did it!
>
> I'll say it again, for the second time today ... debian rules!

Except that there's a very good reason why installing pump never created an
init.d script.  It's not the right place to start pump. :-)

_also_ that's not the right way to go about creating init scripts anyway.
When modifying init scripts _always_ use update-rc.d to create the symlinks.


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