Re: question about rc.local

[coreyh@free.fr]

On 11/03/2023 10:04, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 10 Mar 2023 at 18:47:02 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2023-03-10 18:00:41 +0100, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote:
> > > Am Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 04:29:34PM +0100 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
> > > > On 2023-03-10 09:58:55 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 04:55:03PM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote:
> > > > > > Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> writes:
> > >
> > > [snip - almost everything]
> > >
> > > > > The man pages are most likely from upstream, and don't include the
> > > > > changes provided by Debian (in debian.conf).
> > > >
> > > > It would be useful to have the man page patched (as sometimes done),
> > > > otherwise the user could be surprised.
> > >
> > > I assume you read the man pages in French language?
> >
> > No, in English, as usual (my whole system is in English, mainly to
> > avoid translations, and this is also better for bug reports).
> >
> > The rc-local.service(8) man page says:
>
>   $ man rc-local.service
>   No manual entry for rc-local.service
>   $ apt-file find rc-local.service
>   systemd: /lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service
>   systemd: /lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service.d/debian.conf


Is rc.local a regular service? I was thinking it's just a shell script 
run by systemd.

regards,
Corey H