On 09 Mar 1999q, George Bonser wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, ragOO wrote: > > > Person, Roderick wrote: > > > > > I have installed some tars and I need to set some thing to run at boot. > > > > > > > The Debian equivalent of rc.local is rc.boot > > I really do not think so. rc.local runs LAST after everything is set up. > rc.boot runs FIRST before ANYTHING is set up. I use /sbin/setup.sh If > you look at the startup scripts, the last thing the system at boot is to > look for the existance of /sbin/setup.sh and if it finds it, it runs it. > In most systems, that file is not there so never gets run. >
This was well answered here about 3 weeks ago; see the archive files. You should make a file called /etc/init.d/local with the commands you want to run at bootup and then link this by running "update-rc.d local defaults 80" to make sure it is run. I've done this and it works fine. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/bookreviews.html "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
