Re: Where is "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" on Debian?
On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.05.9903280058411.3750-100000@jester.vip.net.pl>,
> Marek Habersack <grendel@vip.net.pl> wrote:
> >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...
>
> No. Go back and _read_ the archives.
>
> /etc/rc.boot runs very early in the boot process. No daemons (except
> maybe portmap) are running yet. No named, no syslogd, no apache etc.
>
> Historically, /etc/rc.local runs as the _last_ thing in the boot process.
> The system has been initialized fully before rc.local runs.
>
> There is a key difference.
Ok, I re-read the archives, my apologies...
marek
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