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Re: rc.local -> What is the Debian Eqivalent



What is setup.sh I can't find it anywhere on my system


Anthony Campbell wrote:

> On 09 Mar 1999q, George Bonser wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, ragOO wrote:
> >
> > > Person, Roderick wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have installed some tars and I need to set some thing to run at boot.
> > > >
> > >
> > > The Debian equivalent of rc.local is rc.boot
> >
> > I really do not think so. rc.local runs LAST after everything is set up.
> > rc.boot runs FIRST before ANYTHING is set up.  I use /sbin/setup.sh  If
> > you look at the startup scripts, the last thing the system at boot is to
> > look for the existance of /sbin/setup.sh and if it finds it, it runs it.
> > In most systems, that file is not there so never gets run.
> >
>
> This was well answered here about 3 weeks ago; see the archive files. You
> should make a file called /etc/init.d/local with the commands you want to
> run at bootup and then link this by running "update-rc.d local defaults 80"
> to make sure it is run. I've done this and it works fine.
>
> Anthony
>
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