On 19/11/17 20:40, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 19:32:48 +0000, Dave wrote in message
<[email protected]>:
On 19/11/17 14:10, Jaromil wrote:
hi all
Can anyone clarify how /etc/rc.local is being removed in Debian 9?
I got this from rumors in bitcoin's core development, since I'm not
subscribed to Debian lists. The rumor is confirmed by some online
debates on gitlab and stack overflow.
Can someone point out to the decision process for this?
Following up after the conversation on redis, when we had the
elected Debian leader chiming in here to defend his position and
keep deleting init.d scripts, I still believe this is again "even
worst than I thought" and it is "vandalism".
This will certainly keep playing in favor of our fork since
no-nonsense people will come this way, but is very painful to see
Debian's users are being mistreated to this point.
What is happening, and is a pattern, is that parts of Debian that
work well and are widely used by people are being arbitrarily
removed. This doesn't make Debian "universal" anymore, while
betraying once again its mandate of respecting user's freedom.
Noone can trust Debian if it keeps changing things that work for
some, just because of imposing a new thing that others like. Well
beyond and nothwitstanding the qualities of any free and open
source software, Debian is clearly harming another sort of freedom,
the sort that was granted in the free space we all knew rc.local
has always been..
is there any internal discussion about such governance issues in
Debian? is there any hope the current leadership will change and
perhaps repair what this vandalism is breaking?
ciao
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I run debian sid on my laptop. I don't know why it has been done but
if I've understood what you need to know, this is how rc.local is now
at the sharp end:-
/etc/init.d/rc.local
..you have no /etc/rc.local ?
#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: rc.local
# Required-Start: $all
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: Run /etc/rc.local if it exist
### END INIT INFO
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
. /lib/init/vars.sh
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
do_start() {
if [ -x /etc/rc.local ]; then
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_begin_msg "Running local
boot scripts (/etc/rc.local)"
/etc/rc.local
ES=$?
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg $ES
return $ES
fi
}
case "$1" in
start)
do_start
;;
restart|reload|force-reload)
echo "Error: argument '$1' not supported" >&2
exit 3
;;
stop|status)
# No-op
exit 0
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 start|stop" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac
+++++++++++++++++++++++
/etc/rc.local
#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.
exit 0
++++++++++++++++++
DaveT
..how old is your /etc/init.d/rc.local?
As in: ll /etc/init.d/rc.local &&dpkg -l initscripts |grep ^ii |fmt -tu
..mine are:
root@d44:~# ll /etc/init.d/rc.local &&dpkg -l initscripts |grep ^ii
|fmt -tu
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 820 May 29 2015 /etc/init.d/rc.local
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59.2+devuan2 amd64 scripts for initializing and
shutting down the system
root@d44:~#
rir:~# ll /etc/init.d/rc.local &&dpkg -l initscripts |grep ^ii |fmt -tu
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 820 Apr 21 2014 /etc/init.d/rc.local
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59 armhf scripts for initializing and shutting
down the system
rir:~#
root@raspberrypi:~# ll /etc/init.d/rc.local &&dpkg -l initscripts |grep
^ii |fmt -tu -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 782 Oct 15
2012 /etc/init.d/rc.local ii initscripts 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1 armhf
scripts for initializing and shutting down the system
root@raspberrypi:~#
..no /etc/rc.local.
I'm confused...
The timestamp on my /etc/init.d/rc.local is 2015-04-06, I keep my laptop
fully up to date, as in daily updates, and my laptop isn't even that
old! And that 'll' whatever stuff comes back with command not found -
even with sudo...
DaveT
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