Re: Is /etc/rc.boot/ obsolete or not?
In article <cistron.yttyagwnx7v.fsf@gilgamesh.cse.ucsc.edu>,
Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> wrote:
>I'm going through my old bug reports, and I remembered people
>telling me /etc/rc.boot/ is obsolete. But I just went to look at
>the new policy (I assume 3.0.0.0 is the latest) and it has the same
>old stuff about /etc/rc.boot/ :
You can probably blaim me for that. I invented the new /etc/rcS.d stuff,
and never talked to the policy makers/list about this ...
>So can I keep using /etc/rc.boot/ ? :) What was wrong with using
>it in the first place? It's incredibly convenient..
Well, what's wrong is that there is no certain order of execution
defined for the scripts in /etc/rc.boot. Then we got things like
/etc/rc.boot/0serial and such, so why not use a system that does
things the same as /etc/rc?.d.
The main thing that got me started on this was breaking up the
monolithic /etc/init.d/boot script, which doesn't exist anymore
fortunately. It contained a lot of things that really belonged
to other packages than sysvinit, and do now.
>If not, where is information on what I am to use in replacement?
Yes. See /etc/rcS.d/README
>Is this going to be made policy?
It should be, I guess.
Mike.
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