Re: rc3.d

["Stephen J. Carpenter" <sjc@delphi.com>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 08:43:25AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[🔎] 36117717.86E83560@2xtreme.net>,
> Christopher Barry <cbarry@2xtreme.net> wrote:
> >In /etc/init.d/ I made a file called wmnetstartup.sh that contains:
> >
> >#!/bin/sh
> >ipfwadm -A in -i -S 0.0.0.0/0 
> >ipfwadm -A out -i -D 0.0.0.0/0
> >
> >and then in /etc/rcS.d/ I made a symlink to that script called:
> >S60wmnetstartup
> 
> That's perfectly allright. That is indeed the way to add something
> that needs to be run on boot only (no daemons, just one-time initialization).
> The only nitpick I have is that you could/should have used:
> 
> update-rc.d wmnetstartup start 60 S .
> 
> That makes the link automatically for you. But esp. in the case of rcS.d,
> where there is only one link anyway it doesn't really matter.

Just a note...
I know this isn't any sort of policy or documented AFAIK anywhere but...
when I make my own init.d scripts (which I don't intend to be part
of a debian package ;) ) I name them "local.*"
(like my ip maquerading scipt is local.ip_masq)

The idea is I can be pretty sure that there wont ever be a debian
package named "local.whatever" esp since this is the same convention
used un "menu" to tell it a dependancy is met localy.


just a thought...also...is there any reason not to run ipmasq script
as S20 (default)? mine always worked that way 

-Steve

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