Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?
On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.05.9903272335100.3273-100000@jester.vip.net.pl>,
> Marek Habersack <grendel@vip.net.pl> wrote:
> >Hmm... isn't that a bit overkill? Why don't you just put stuff in /etc/rc.boot
> >or do cd /etc;mkdir rc.d;ln -sf rc.boot rc.d/rc.local???
>
> NO
>
> /etc/rc.boot and rc.local are totally different things.
>
> If you do not know what you are doing DO NOT use /etc/rc.boot
>
> Read about this in the archives. It has come up at least 60 times before.
I know it is for one-time boottime initialization of some packages. But in the
absense of rc.local it can be used, as a poor-man's substitute. OTOH, the two
startup file layout standards haven't been designed to be intermixed, so I
guess that this discussion is purely theoretical and inpractical...
marek
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