Re: Q re missing rc.local file
On Thursday 04 August 2005 12:47, Bob Proulx wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I have a fairly lengthy list of things I've added to
>> the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, which is softlinked from S99local in
>> the various rcX.d directories in RH & Fedora and is the last thing
>> executed before the login screen in a RG/Fedora runlevel 3 boot.
>
>On Debian there is no difference (by default) to the different run
>levels. This is an often confusing point to people switching to
>Debian. And the converse that run levels are meaningful to people
>switching to Red Hat.
Yes, among other things if its setup for a graphical login, but I want
to first do a text login followed by a startx. How then is this
accomplished?
[...]
>There is no default "local" rc script. Which is perhaps a shame
>because this is an often asked question. But there is a template
> that you can use to easily create one for yourself.
>
> cd /etc/init.d
> cp skeleton localrc
> editor localrc # edit as you desire
Ahh, that I can handle. I take it it gets sourced if it exists as
localrc?
>
>That file has examples of almost everything in it. You won't need
>almost everything in your copy. Please delete what you don't need.
>In fact it may be better to pick an active working script and use it
>instead. You will be ahead in terms of avoiding the noise. But
>skeleton is still a good example because it does have a lot of
> stuff.
>
> cp cron localrc
> editor localrc # edit as you desire
>
>Of course that is a traditional daemon startup. If you just want to
>run commands then you might find hwclock.sh more to your liking.
>
> cp cron localrc
> editor localrc # edit as you desire
>
>In any case, there is a tool to set up the symlinks that can be
>thought of as a chkconfig like tool.
>
> update-rc.d localrc defaults
>
>This is really a scripting interface. So normally users don't need
> to know about the command. But it is used in packages in the
> postinst script. And the reverse removal is 'update-rc.d localrc
> remove'.
But, what do I do it aI want to remove boinc, but not setibatch?
Obviously we're back to hand editing. I'm capable of that.
Maybe a different tack needs to be taken by way of having an etc/local
dir, and anything placed it it gets sourced at startup? Is something
like that possible in the future?
Thanks Bob.
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