On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 02:00:16AM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote: > I know it is for one-time boottime initialization of some packages. But in the > absense of rc.local it can be used, as a poor-man's substitute. OTOH, the two > startup file layout standards haven't been designed to be intermixed, so I > guess that this discussion is purely theoretical and inpractical...
There is no "absence of rc.local" -- you just have to make it yourself. Just do the following: cd /etc/init.d vi local chmod +x local update-rc.d local defaults Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org