KatolaZ writes ("Re: Please make /etc/rc.local non-executable by default"):
> The important point is just: what is the benefit of removing +x from
> /etc/rc.local?
>
> IMHO: no benefit at all.
This is the clear and overwhelming consensus of the Debian sysvinit
maintainers. We have made our decis
Josh Triplett:
(Personally, I *wish* that /etc/rc.local didn't exist at all by
default and you had to *create* it if you wanted it used.)
So too did Lennart Poettering.
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734268
Matthew Dillon went a step further, and deleted /etc/rc.local from
F
KatolaZ:
/etc/rc.local is expected to be executed by rc at the end of each
multiuser runlevel.
[...]
Removing the +x bit will break it immediately, and to no avail.
There is a bit of a myth that has grown up about /etc/rc.local in recent
years, that it was executed "last".
* https://github
Thorsten Glaser:
I would be massively surprised if I installed a system, added
something to rc.local, and it were not run.
You would be massively surprised on Arch Linux and its derivatives,
then. systemd is built without its backwards compatibility mechanisms
on Arch, and /etc/rc.local sto
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 08:44:03PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Josh Triplett wrote:
>
> > Are you saying that even *with* that comment you'd be surprised?
>
> Yes.
>
> You probably know how many people read such instructions. But my
> main point is “not being surprised”
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 09:22:20PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-11-15 at 12:01 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > I will refrain from expanding on how much I care about "Unix admin
> > tradition". I'd like /etc to be *empty* on a freshly installed
> > system, thank you. ;)
>
> And plea
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 09:14:19PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:37:51 -0800 Josh Triplett
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 01:18:34PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> > >
> > > > I tend to agree. Dear co-maintainers, do y
On Thu, 2018-11-15 at 12:01 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 08:44:03PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > (Personally, I *wish* that /etc/rc.local didn't exist at all by
> > > default
> > > and you had to *create* it if you wante
Am 15.11.18 um 21:14 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Just wanted to chime in here:
> A default Debian installation using systemd will no longer create a
> /etc/rc.local file. If you have such a file, this means you probably
> have an older system which was upgraded.
> sysvinit is of course free to create
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:37:51 -0800 Josh Triplett
wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 01:18:34PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> >
> > > I tend to agree. Dear co-maintainers, do you have objections? Any
> >
> > I do have an objection — a veto even.
> >
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 01:18:34PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
>
> > I tend to agree. Dear co-maintainers, do you have objections? Any
>
> I do have an objection — a veto even.
>
> Installation instructions throughout the world say that “add the
> f
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Are you saying that even *with* that comment you'd be surprised?
Yes.
You probably know how many people read such instructions. But my
main point is “not being surprised” and “tons of existing, mostly
OS-independent, installation manuals out there”.
P
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 01:18:34PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
>
> > I tend to agree. Dear co-maintainers, do you have objections? Any
>
> I do have an objection — a veto even.
>
> Installation instructions throughout the world say that “add the
> f
Thorsten Glaser writes ("Re: Please make /etc/rc.local non-executable by
default"):
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> > I tend to agree. Dear co-maintainers, do you have objections? Any
>
> I do have an objection - a veto even.
I agree with your objection. Although please don't use
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> I tend to agree. Dear co-maintainers, do you have objections? Any
I do have an objection — a veto even.
Installation instructions throughout the world say that “add the
following script lines to /etc/rc.local”. None of them says to
add the +x bit, and
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:37:27AM +, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> [2014-04-29 22:05] Josh Triplett
> > The default /etc/rc.local says:
> >
> > # In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
> > # bits.
> > #
> > # By default this script does nothing.
> >
> > However, the f
Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-53
Severity: normal
The default /etc/rc.local says:
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.
However, the file has the executable bit set by default, making it do
nothing less effi
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