On 03-Feb-2001 Stephen Robertson wrote: > I'm fairly new to Debian and still learning the system. What is the > accepted method of configuring which services are stopped and started in > > each run level, and how can I add my own commands to the Init scripts. > RedHat provided a file called rc.local for adding user commands. Is > there a similar method in Debian? >
man update-rc.d You need to add a /etc/init.d/local script. Debian does not ship one. As for what starts and stops, debian basically assumes you live in run level 3. If you install a package, it gets run at boot. uninstall things you do not want. Another choice is to added configuration to /etc/defaults/foo and make /etc/init.d/foo read that file. update-rc.d can reassign boot priorities and what runlevels what gets run at.
