On 28 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > 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. Ok, I re-read the archives, my apologies...
marek
