Re: rc.boot

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

> pppconfig-1.9beta2.0 includes scripts that can swap in a resolv.conf
> appropriate for the selected provider and swap the original back when ppp
> goes down.  Because a crash while ppp is up could leave the wrong file in
> place I want to install a cleanup script in /etc/rc.boot.  Lintian
> disapproves of this:
> 
> E: pppconfig: package-installs-into-etc-rc.boot etc/rc.boot/0dns-init
> 
> What should I do?  Is there some tool I must use to install a script in
> rc.boot?

/etc/rc.boot is deprecated.  Install the script in /etc/init.d and use
update-rc.d to install the necessary symlink into the right /etc/rc?.d
directories.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg