I'm going through my old bug reports, and I remembered people telling me /etc/rc.boot/ is obsolete. But I just went to look at the new policy (I assume 3.0.0.0 is the latest) and it has the same old stuff about /etc/rc.boot/ :
(snip) 3.3.4 Boot-time initialization There is another directory, /etc/rc.boot, which contains scripts which are run once per machine boot. This facility is provided for initialization of hardware devices, cleaning up of leftover files, and so forth. For example, the kbd package provides a script here for initializing the keyboard layout and console font and mode. The files in /etc/rc.boot should not be links into /etc/init.d--they should be the scripts themselves. rc.boot should not be used for starting general-purpose daemons and similar activities. This should be done using the rcn.d scheme, above, so that the services can be started and stopped cleanly when the runlevel changes or the machine is to be shut down or rebooted. (snip) So can I keep using /etc/rc.boot/ ? :) What was wrong with using it in the first place? It's incredibly convenient.. If not, where is information on what I am to use in replacement? Is this going to be made policy? -- Brought to you by the letters W and Z and the number 7. "A baloo is a bear." Debian GNU/Linux maintainer of Gimp and GTK+ -- http://www.debian.org/
