On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 09:56:32AM -0500, Dan McGhee enlightened us thusly
> I've built a couple of pakcages recently, hplip is one, that are not in
> the BLFS book. They want to put bootscripts into /etc/init.d. Of
> course, since I've followed the direction in both LFS and BLFS :), I
> don't have a directory like that. On the Mandrake side of my box,
> there's a link:
>
> /etc/init.d -->/etc/rc.d/init.d
>
> Until now I've used ' install [blah-blah] /etc/rcd./init.d' to work
> around this.
I presume you mean /etc/rc.d/init.d
>
> Are there any "up" or "down" sides to putting this link in?
>
If you don't have it, some things don't work :-)
Somebody unix lot (RedHat? and mebbe others) did it this way, and users
of it write stuff that gets installed to /etc/init.d. So your startup
scripts end up there. All purists will tear their hair out until that
gets tidied strictly into the place FHS says it should be. This, in
fact, is what FHS is about; So the purists can whip the rest of us into shape
;-).
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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