On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 20:16, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > >>>>> "Elijah" == Elijah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Elijah> Hi! I've been having problems with my second drive (hdd) > Elijah> since everytime I browse through it pauses on occasion and > Elijah> gives some I/O errors. I somehow solved it with hdparm: > Elijah> hdparm -c 1 /dev/hdd hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdd hdparm -k 1 > Elijah> /dev/hdd > > Elijah> I'm quite sure the -k option will keep these settings for > Elijah> my hdd but after reboot, it did'nt. So it made me look > Elijah> for rc.local to put these commands to, but I just can't > Elijah> find it(?). I put them commands to /etc/rc.boot/ and made > Elijah> a script there with the commands. Everything seems to go > Elijah> well. But to make sure ... am what I doing alright? is > Elijah> this the proper way to setup my hdd? > > Elijah> Elijah > > > >From /usr/share/doc/debian/FAQ/debian-faq.txt.gz > > 10.6. It looks as if Debian does not use `rc.local' to customize the boot > process; what facilities are provided? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Suppose a system needs to execute script `foo' on start-up, or on > entry to a particular (System V) runlevel. Then the system > administrator should: > > * Enter the script `foo' into the directory `/etc/init.d/'. > > * Run the Debian command `update-rc.d' with appropriate arguments, > to set up links between the (command-line-specified) directories > rc?.d and `/etc/init.d/foo'. Here, '?' is a number from 0 > through 6 and corresponds to each of the System V runlevels. > > * Reboot the system. > > The command `update-rc.d' will set up links between files in the > directories rc?.d and the script in `/etc/init.d/'. Each link will > begin with a 'S' or a 'K', followed by a number, followed by the name > of the script. Scripts beginning with 'S' in `/etc/rcN.d/' are > executed when runlevel `N' is entered. Scripts beginning with a 'K' > are executed when leaving runlevel `N'. > > One might, for example, cause the script `foo' to execute at boot-up, > by putting it in `/etc/init.d/' and installing the links with > `update-rc.d foo defaults 19'. The argument 'defaults' refers to the > default runlevels, which are 2 through 5. The argument '19' ensures > that `foo' is called before any scripts containing numbers 20 or > larger. > > > > -- > PGP Fingerprint: 3E7B A3F3 96CA 8958 ACC5 C8BD 6337 0041 C01C 5276
hmmm, I'm not aware of that. I must be doing it wrong then, thanks for correcting this Eric :) Debian is very different from the other distros I've tried, gotta get used to it ... :) Cheers, Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
