On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 01:10:44PM -0300, Julio wrote: > Given the comments on my proposal, I'm rewriting it to the following: > > 1. to provide support for separation of local initialization scripts, > allow update-rc.d to handle subdirectories. So, a /etc/init.d/local (or > whatever) dir could be created and a script within this dir could be > linked to rc?.d with 'update-rc.d local/99ascript defaults'. > > 2. to let regular users have init scripts, allow ~/.rc.d directories > (to be run after all the system initialization for the active users in > the passwd database)
I can almost see the need for part 1, but how is part 2 any different or better than using the (regrettably undocumented, but that's a bug in cron, not policy) @reboot feature of cron? I use this to start fetchmail on my PC at boot, with the crontab line: @reboot /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 45 It works fine. -- Nathaniel
