On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 11:18:10PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > For clarification, we did agree that rc.boot should remain for local > > sysadmin use did we not? > > I don't remember, but /etc/init.d/rcS still checks for /etc/rc.boot > for compatibility. It's just deprecated (see rc.boot(5)). > > The question of local rc.? directories is still an active topic of > discussion.
rc.boot makes perfect sense as a simple way for local sysadmins to add
things to be run when the machine boots. I think no package has any
business touching it (and none do in potato I believe..)
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> >I don't really regard bible-kjv-text as a technical document,
> > but... :)
> It's a manual -- for living.
But it hasn't been updated in a long time, many would say that it's
sadly out of date, and the upstream maintainer doesn't respond to his
email. :-)
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