Hi. Sorry for breaking the thread on this email. I know that's lousy netiquette. I apparently inadvertently signed myself up for digest mode, so a graceful reply to Soren's reply was impossible. Anyway, here's the conversation.
>> I have no rc.d directory. I do have rc0.d through rc6.d and rcS.d. >> How do I go about making this a permanent change? I have yet to find >> the "in painful detail"-type explanation that I usually need. >What distribution are you using? All of them do the rc.d scripts slightly >differently, so we need to know that to give you the painfully detailed >explanation. > >If you just want to try it yourself, there's probably a script called > > /etc/init.d/local > >or something in the /etc/init.d directory with "local" in the name. >You can mess around with that script (make a backup copy of it first!) >to add the hdparm settings to it. I am using Debian 3.0 with kernel version 2.4. The following are the contents of the /etc/init.d directory: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 854 Oct 5 2001 README -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1430 Oct 26 2002 apache -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1074 Jan 18 2002 atd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1967 Jan 25 2002 bootmisc.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 894 Oct 5 2001 checkfs.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4048 Apr 8 2002 checkroot.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2757 Nov 11 2001 console-screen.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 868 Mar 27 2001 cron -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 779 Apr 8 2003 devpts.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 599 Jan 4 2002 dns-clean -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1315 Mar 4 2002 exim -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1959 Apr 4 2002 gdm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 418 Jan 19 2002 halt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 165 Feb 26 2001 hostname.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3390 Jan 27 2002 hwclock.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3233 Jan 27 2002 hwclockfirst.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 218 Jul 13 2001 ifupdown -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1764 Nov 18 2001 inetd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3106 Apr 13 2002 iptables -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3227 Sep 16 2003 kdm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 723 Apr 22 2002 keymap.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1592 Jan 3 2002 klogd -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 5 22:10 local.save -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 904 Mar 15 2003 lpd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 320 Mar 28 2001 makedev -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 735 Sep 27 2001 modutils -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 896 Nov 1 2001 mountall.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1579 Apr 8 2002 mountnfs.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4042 Nov 18 2001 networking -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1461 Dec 13 2001 nfs-common -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1858 Dec 13 2001 nfs-kernel-server -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1882 Jan 5 2000 nviboot -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1070 Mar 23 2000 portmap -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1116 Nov 7 2001 ppp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1013 Oct 27 2001 procps.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2235 Feb 26 2001 rc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1190 Apr 19 1999 rcS -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 197 Jun 21 1998 reboot -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 261 Feb 26 2001 rmnologin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2215 Apr 7 2003 samba -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 358 Feb 26 2001 sendsigs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3797 Nov 7 2001 setserial -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 499 Feb 26 2001 single -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1771 Apr 8 2002 skeleton -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1699 Sep 19 2003 ssh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1908 Jan 3 2002 sysklogd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 505 Nov 6 2001 umountfs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 436 Oct 5 2001 umountnfs.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1176 Jul 6 2001 urandom -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 638 Dec 4 2003 webmin Hope that helps... I'll stop being a thread-breaking, bottom-posting jerk now. :-) Andrew _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
