On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:29:44PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 02:00:36PM +0400, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:19:24PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Doesn't matter. rc.local is an interface that has been around since > > > forever, and which is *meant* for local admins to use. > > > > But not to abuse this interface and use one in a wrong way. > > It's not abuse. It cannot be abuse! > > It is an interface that is meant for the local administrator to use. It > is trivially easy to support, and many many _many_ local admins will use > it for whatever they want to. And that's fine, because that is _exactly_ > what it's for. > > It is not Debian's place to decide what is the "right" or the "wrong" > way for local administrators to use. Debian ships an empty rc.local > file, and expects a local administrator to have fun using it. > > I will agree with you that bypassing the init script system and just > dumping hundreds of lines in rc.local is a bad idea. But if a local > administrator decides that this is what they want to use, then by all > means they should use it.
And please do not break it, or you'll have hordes of sysadmins with torches and pitchforks after you. I for one tend to write a whole /etc/init.d/ script for a minor at-boot task[1], but I'd join the lynch mob because I see it being used everywhere and _I_ would have to fix some resulting breakage. So whatever init system you ship, please execute rc.local, mm'kay? [1]. With IIRC two exceptions. One just to run "df >/dev/null", the reason that's not a no-op involving a noisy disk and slow spin-up. -- A tit a day keeps the vet away. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140218212020.ga31...@angband.pl
