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



From: "Roland Bauerschmidt" <rb@debian.org>

> Derek Broughton wrote:
> > _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.
>
> No. Packages must use update-rc.d. Admins _can_ if they wish.
>
Hey, I didn't say you _couldn't_ create a script anyway you want.  But
there's a tool to do the job that makes sure that you do it right, and it's
not smart to bypass it unless you know exactly what you're doing.  In this
case, given that he wanted to create an init script for something that is
more correctly done elsewhere, it seems obvious that he _didn't_ know ...


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