Re: [PLUG] starting a program at boot

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:17:35AM -0400, christophe barbé wrote:
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/ is outdated.
> The FSH say /etc/init.d/ and IIRC on recent RH distrib /etc/rc.d/init.d/
> is a symlink to /etc/init.d/.

Other way around on the RedHat end.

(RH's way of doing things is a ridiculously over-complicated version
of the already ridiculously over-complicated SysV rc structure.)

> You can reasonably expect all distributions to use /etc/init.d/

You're dreaming. :^> But it'd be a step in the right direction.

> And /etc/rc.d/rc.local is a RH kludge.

A RH kludge of BSD-style init into SysV init, and just another
manifestation of Linux's BSD/SysV schizophrenia.

(/etc/rc.local is a quite normale, sane way of doing things in
classic BSD rc.)

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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