In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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telling me /etc/rc.boot/ is obsolete.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/ :
You can probably blaim me for that. I invented the new /etc/rcS.d stuff, and never talked to the policy makers/list about this ... >So can I keep using /etc/rc.boot/ ? :) What was wrong with using >it in the first place? It's incredibly convenient.. Well, what's wrong is that there is no certain order of execution defined for the scripts in /etc/rc.boot. Then we got things like /etc/rc.boot/0serial and such, so why not use a system that does things the same as /etc/rc?.d. The main thing that got me started on this was breaking up the monolithic /etc/init.d/boot script, which doesn't exist anymore fortunately. It contained a lot of things that really belonged to other packages than sysvinit, and do now. >If not, where is information on what I am to use in replacement? Yes. See /etc/rcS.d/README >Is this going to be made policy? It should be, I guess. Mike. -- Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
