In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric G . Miller <egm2@jps.net> wrote: >On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 01:57:13PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Eric G . Miller <egm2@jps.net> wrote: >> >Put your one-time script links in /etc/rcS.d and the actual scripts in >> >/etc/init.d. >> >> DO NOT do this. /etc/rcS.d scripts are executed at bootup before any >> other service is running. > >If I remember correctly, the person was asking about boot time scripts >to set something or other (a one time job).
Okay, that is fine > Why is that wrong? (We're >not talking about starting daemons here). If I remember correctly, the >poster was asking about rc.boot (which doesn't exist on Debian). It does, but only for backwards compatibility. I think we should take it out in woody >> >There are >> >READMEs in /etc/rcS.d and /etc/init.d. >> >> That's good advice, now follow it ;) > >I don't see anything in the READMEs that says this is B.A.D. You just >have to be careful about the sequence number. And you can check your >attitude at the door. Lighten up. There was a smiley there, and please remember that a lot of people on this list don't have english as their first $LANG Mike. -- The From: and Reply-To: addresses are internal news2mail gateway addresses. Reply to the list or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
