On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 09:41:01PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 11:18:10PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > For clarification, we did agree that rc.boot should remain for local > > > sysadmin use did we not? > > > > I don't remember, but /etc/init.d/rcS still checks for /etc/rc.boot > > for compatibility. It's just deprecated (see rc.boot(5)). > > > > The question of local rc.? directories is still an active topic of > > discussion. > > rc.boot makes perfect sense as a simple way for local sysadmins to add > things to be run when the machine boots. I think no package has any > business touching it (and none do in potato I believe..)
You may have misunderstood me; I wasn't advocating its usage by packages, but merely its existence as a means for local initalization. See my original problem. What I would like to see is rmnologin moved to 98, and a new init.d script 'local' with priority 99, that would simply be: #!/bin/sh run-parts /etc/rc.local -- Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.verbum.org/levanti PGP Fingerprint: A580 5AA1 0887 2032 7EFB 19F4 9776 6282 C207 843A
