[ILUG] Re: slackware (was: Esat ADSL)

[Rick Moen]

Quoting John P. Looney (valen at tuatha.org):

>  True. One of my personal hates with debian is that it doesn't have a
> simple rc.local file that you can put stuff like this in. 

I wax hot and cold on this, myself.  Some days, it just annoys the heck
out of me.  But:

>  Apparently [0] putting the following in root's crontab is a way of doing it;
>     @reboot /etc/rc.local
>  
>  But that's crappy that you have to go to such lengths. Of course, as
> someone who was a skilled slackware user, I'm sure you would have been
> able to sort it out.

I believe the Debian Gods-Approved Solution[tm] is to

# cd /etc/init.d
# cp skeleton foo
# $EDITOR_OF_CHOICE foo
And, when you're done, do the symlink stuff in /etc/rc?.d/ as required.

If you're basically a BSD/Slackware/Stampede person, the above drill can
be one SysVInit-ism too many -- but the compensating advantage is that
you get proper handling of lock files, proper start|stop|restart
directives, and all that.  Arguably, just slapping something onto the
end of rc.local is half-assed.

But if you want such a half-assed rc.local _anyway_ (and some days, I do), 
it suffices to do:

# cd /etc/init.d
# $EDITOR_OF_CHOICE rc.local
# chmod 774 rc.local
# ln -s /etc/init.d/rc.local /etc/rc2.d/S99local 

And you're done.

-- 
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Rick Moen
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