Re: Daft newbie help. Boot stuff.
Brian Skreeg Brian Skreeg wrote:
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> > Hi clever peeps.
> > I'm quite new to debian and linux in general but have been doing
> > exectionally well for a first timer. Even managed to get X installed and
> > recompile and install a kernel with sound support. :) Clever eh?
> > Anyway, the problem I'm having just now is a simple one. Where do I
> > put commands that I want executed at startup? For example. I need to set my
> > hostname for my ppp dial-up stuff. Having a text file in /etc called
> > HOSTNAME containing my hostname isn't good enough. I need to run the
> > command "hostname fishtech.u-net.com" like so. What file to I place this in
> > so it is run everytime the machine boots? I've read several documents and
> > book but they all seem to point to a mythical rc.local file that doesn't
> > exist in the Debian setup. Debian seems to do it's whole rc.d thing a lot
> > differently from other distributions.
> > Also how do I set certain EnvVars at startup?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Ozzy,
> >
> > __ _ _
> > / \ \ \
> > / / / / / |-Brian Skreeg--------IRC:_Ozzy-|
> > \__/ \ \ |-Lead guitarist extraordinaire-|
> > \__/_/ |-I don't look like two zombies-|
> >
All your local configuration files which are run at boot are in
/etc/init.d/.
Hope that helps,
Christian Watts
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