Re: debians /etc/rc.local?????

[sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer)]

A. M. Varon wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> 
> [I hope some Debian Developers are reading this.]
> 
> Could it be possible to have the rc.local file by default in the Debian
> Distro? 

Actually, no... it will never get run, even if you create it.
Debian uses SYSV style init, whenere rc.local is from BSD style
init. Slackware uses this. Whatever you need to run, the easiest
is to create a quick script and drop it in the /etc/rc.boot dir

Tim

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