In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marek Habersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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...
No. Go back and _read_ the archives. /etc/rc.boot runs very early in the boot process. No daemons (except maybe portmap) are running yet. No named, no syslogd, no apache etc. Historically, /etc/rc.local runs as the _last_ thing in the boot process. The system has been initialized fully before rc.local runs. There is a key difference. Besides, /etc/rc.boot has been deprecated and will disappear. Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
