Phil Sexton schrieb:
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Phil Sexton schrieb:
I didn't think you had to run it manually unless you want to. Can't
you call if from
/etc/conf.d/local.start
Sure, but why do that? Why not use the mechanisms, that Gentoo
forsees for this?
Interestingly, you did not answer this question. Why's that so?
I thought that was the purpose of that file, to run stuff you want to
on bootup.
That's not how I see the file. For me, the file is there to do stuff,
for which there's no "proper" way.
Gentoo is the only distribution I have seen use that particular file,
What file? /etc/conf.d/net?
so
I consider it one of the "proper" ways to do things I can't figure out
otherwise.
You should use /etc/conf.d/net to set the domainname.
There is usually more than one way to "skin a cat" in Linux.
True. Some are "with the spirit", some are not so much with the spirit
of the distribution.
Alexander Skwar
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