where is debian's version of /etc/rc.d/rc.local

where is debian's version of /etc/rc.d/rc.local

[Gregory Nowak]

Hi all.

Coming from a slackware background, I am very much used to putting various things I want to run at boot into /etc/rc.d/rc.local. However, there is no /etc/rc.d directory, and I don't see anything close to rc.local in /etc/init.d. Can someone please explain?
Thanks.

Greg


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Re: where is debian's version of /etc/rc.d/rc.local

[Luke Davis]

What I usually do, is look through that directory, and choose the file
which best fits the thing I want to run.
You can usually find something which makes sense.

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> Coming from a slackware background, I am very much used to putting various things I want to run at boot into /etc/rc.d/rc.local. However, there is no /etc/rc.d directory, and I don't see anything close to rc.local in /etc/init.d. Can someone please explain?
> Thanks.
>
> Greg
>
>
>

Re: where is debian's version of /etc/rc.d/rc.local

[Gregory Nowak]

What directory do you mean, /etc/init.d?

The problem in this case is that there is no file which best fits the
thing I want to run. Specifically, I want to do
echo 16 >/proc/speakup/pitch
.

Greg


On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:01:33PM -0600, Luke Davis wrote:
> What I usually do, is look through that directory, and choose the file
> which best fits the thing I want to run.
> You can usually find something which makes sense.
> 

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Re: where is debian's version of /etc/rc.d/rc.local

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

The convention for Debian is to put an entry in /etc/init.d and then put a
link in the appropriate rc directory.  So for speakup, I have
/etc/init.d/speakup.sh, and a link to it from /etc/rcS.d/S11speakup.sh.  I
have it here because it needs to be after S10checkroot.sh which mounts the
proc filesystem among other things.  I guess it could be S10speakup.sh as s
comes after c, but I felt making it 11 would make it clearer and also avoid
potential future problems.

Geoff.


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Re: where is debian's version of /etc/rc.d/rc.local

[Shaun Oliver]

debian don't have an /etc/rc.d/rc.local as such,
what I did for speakup, was the following.
created a script in /etc/init.d anc called it naturally speakup.
then I did the following.
update-rc.d speakup start 20 1 2 3 4 5 . stop 20 0 1 6 .
the syntax for this is as follows.

update-rc.d script start n runlevels n n n . stop n runlevels n n n .
note the period at the end of the space separated list of run levels.
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Re: where is debian's version of /etc/rc.d/rc.local

[Shaun Oliver]

I hope geoff me boy you used update-rc.d for this, that's what it's
there for,

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Shaun: Thanks! Didn't know about update-rc.d. Hugh

[Hugh Esco]

Shaun:

Thank you for sharing that.  What a great idea.  I used to do this the old
fashioned way with a series of ln -s commands interspersed with cd's.

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Shaun Oliver wrote on the Speakup list:
> created a script in /etc/init.d anc called it naturally speakup.
> then I did the following.
> update-rc.d speakup start 20 1 2 3 4 5 . stop 20 0 1 6 .

I immediately braught up the man page for update-rc.d and am happy to see
it on my installation, as well.  Thanks again.

-- Hugh

Re: Shaun: Thanks! Didn't know about update-rc.d. Hugh

[Thomas Stivers]

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On 11/30/03  2:45 PM -0800, Hugh Esco wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Shaun Oliver wrote on the Speakup list:
> > created a script in /etc/init.d anc called it naturally speakup.
> > then I did the following.
> > update-rc.d speakup start 20 1 2 3 4 5 . stop 20 0 1 6 .

You may want to change the 1 2 3 4 5 to S which will load speakup even
earlier. I have it run as just about the first thing after init.

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