On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:01:12PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Mar 26, 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > On 26-Mar-2002 Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > > > In my Potato installation, I place a call to hdparm in rc.local. > > > > > > In my new Woody installation, I cannot find rc.local. > > > > > > What is the correct place / file to use for boot-up configuration / > > > control commands? > > > > > > > make a /etc/init.d/local script (call it something that is likely to > > not be used by a package). Use update-rc.d to add it to the run level > > tree. > > This question comes up enough that a policy ought IMVAO be set for it. > > Viz: any rc script named local-foo is considered local and sacrosanct > by the system, where "-foo" could have any arbitrary value, including > null (for the single instance of a local script). > > But this way I could, say, run four local webservers as > local-apache-mydom0, local-apache-mydom1, local-apache-mydom2, and > local-apache-mydom3, without worrying about how they're treated by > Debian.
Or perhaps local.foobar ? "." instead of "-", as this could use the same notation as the Debian Menu policy.. > > I'll bounce this to the devel (or other) list if someone thinks this is > a worthwhile suggestion. Definitely. Just my 1 pence... -- Karl E. Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.karl.jorgensen.com ... An rfc2324 advocate http://www.rfc.net/rfc2324.html
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