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Re: Customizing environment



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On Sun, 18 May 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> What is the preferred method of customizing the boot-up login environment?
> I guess I could do it by adding lines to /etc/init.d/boot, but wondered if
> there is an "official" file to add site-customized parameters, things
> like 'setterm -powersave on' for example.

The best way with Debian, since we use the SysV init scheme, is to create
an additional file in /etc/init.d, and then create symlinks in the various
/etc/rc?.d directorys (/usr/sbin/update-rc.d is useful in this regard).
Check out /etc/init.d/README for information on how the system works.

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