Debian-newbie questions

Peter L. Peres plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Sun Oct 5 15:06:32 UTC 2003


On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Ilya Palagin wrote:

> Anton Markov wrote:
> ..
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.local should be the standard location on most SysV style
> > systems.
> >
> > Hope I helped.  Someone with Debian experience please correct me if I am
> > wrong.
> Debian is the most "accurate" Linux distribution, and I guess that it
> doesn't use rc.local to be more simple and more "exact" about /etc/rc
> commands execution. Using rc.local for system startup, one has to create
> additional scripts in /etc/init.d and link them to /etc/rc.*, if he
> wants to start or stop services with runlevel changes. With Debian, one
> just creates all he needs in /etc/init.d and links it with runlevels or
> rcS.d, no messing up with rc.local.

You are explaining the difference between System V style init (the one you
prefer) and plain init (BSD style which uses rc.local extensively - like
Slackware f.ex.).

Peter
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