On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Marek Habersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hmm... isn't that a bit overkill? Why don't you just put stuff in > >/etc/rc.boot > >or do cd /etc;mkdir rc.d;ln -sf rc.boot rc.d/rc.local??? > > NO > > /etc/rc.boot and rc.local are totally different things. > > If you do not know what you are doing DO NOT use /etc/rc.boot > > Read about this in the archives. It has come up at least 60 times before. 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...
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