On Sat 03 Jan 2009 22:40:43 NZDT +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:

> > Not sure about other distributions, I imagine several use /etc/rc.local 
> > though.
> 
> More organised distributions use something like /etc/init.d/boot.local

Found it:

http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/initsrcinstrm.html

All Linux distros are currently required to put init scripts into
/etc/init.d/, and have been for a very long time.

There's a comment to the effect that this requirement may change in the
future, but it hasn't yet. Is this perhaps under discussion because
certain distros scream hell at Microsoft for not following standards,
but have no intentions of doing so themselves?

One could argue that the system-local boot script is not a service init
script, but that's getting picky.

Volker

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