Re: rc.local equivalent
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> A couple of days ago someone asked the question that was in the back of my
> mind, but I don't recall seeing the answer/s.
>
> In Red Hat and some other Red Hat "like" distributions the path sequence
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc.local
>
> can be used to execute your custom scripts and/or start daemons at boot
> time, that is they are run out of rc.local
>
> The person was asking what/where is the place where one does this kind of
> thing in Debian?
Debian doesn't have one.
I usually make /etc/rc.local manually and make /etc/rc2.d/S99rc.local a
symlink to that.
> I cannot find /etc/rc.d
>
> There is an /etc/rc.boot
>
> and a /etc/init.d
>
> If I wanted to start the printer daemon at boot time where would I put the
> following
>
> lpd start
>
> You can also use rc3.d to start the lpd daemon in the Red
> Hat way of doing things - is this the answer?
Basically
RedHat tends to use the "nonstandard" runlevel 3 (ie /etc/rc.d/rc3.d, or
/etc/rc3.d if you're using RH 7.x) while Debian defaults to the "standard"
runlevel 2 (ie /etc/rc2.d).
"standard" or "nonstandard" in this case being compared to other Unix
implementations that use the SysV init (ie Irix, Solaris, HP-UX, etc).
> This appears to be an area where things are done differently in Red Hat
> versus Debian
One of them.
Basically everyting under /etc/rc.d on RedHat is under /etc on Debian.
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