On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Julio wrote:
> > > I propose the creation of some directories to hold the local
> > > initialization scripts and separate them from the initialization
> > > scripts installed by packages. One possible approach would be to
> > > use /usr/local/etc/init.d or /etc/rc.local to contain scripts to
> > > be executed after all the scripts in /etc/rc?.d
> >Why should they be executed _after_ the other scripts? This makes
> >your idea inflexible, because with this you won't have the chance
> >to start some "local" service _before_ some Debian service is
> >started. For example you may set up a "local" script which
> >configures your firewall. This script should be run _before_
> >starting any networking daemons (which are brought to you by
> >Debian, so they are started in /etc/init.d).
> So you'd put your scripts in /usr/local/etc/rcS.d
Maybe you missed the idea of using different sorting numbers for
different init scripts?