On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: > I just jumped over to Debian from another distro. I am trying to find my way > around, but I cannot find "rc.local", the Debian version of it.
There is no rc.local. All the "rc"-type files are in /etc/init.d and are invoked by symlinks in /etc/rcx.d. What I do is create a file "local" in /etc/init.d to put all my local customization and then create the links by running update-rc.d (man update-rc.d for the syntax here). See /etc/init.d/skeleton for a sample file to use. > > Also, I have a newer Exim package to install, but I cannot figure out how to > get dselect to install from /usr/src You could create a debian package and then install it. If it isn't worth the bother to do so, put it in /usr/local/src, compile and install. It won't be visible to dpkg/dselect, but these never touch anything in /usr/local, so you will be safe. If it's already a Debian package, just use 'dpkg -i <packagename>'. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
