On Mit, 2002-09-04 at 01:01, David Stanaway wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 17:56, Michael Milligan wrote: > > A simple question, probably: > > I am setting up an old inkjet serial printer on my G3 running woody. After > > some research and several test pages, I established that CUPS handles the > > thing fine, but only if I first manually issue > > $ stty -F /dev/ttyS1 230400 cstopb raw echo ixoff ixon > > as root. Since I don't really want to have to log into the thing every > > time it gets rebooted just to enable the printer, I was wondering what is > > the Debianishly correct way to execute this command at boot time. I > > *could* write a new boot script and insert the links in /etc/rc* myself, > > but this seems somehow tacky. > > Write it, and put it in /etc/init.d
So far, so good. > then install it with update-rc.d (It has a nice manpage) So I used to think, but no - not in general, anyway. update-rc.d is for use by packages, and anything you do with it can get overridden by a package without warning, whereas manual manipulations to the /etc/rc*.d/* links should be preserved. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
