Re: Is /etc/rc.boot/ obsolete or not?

1999-07-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
Miquel == Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Miquel It sounds more like you want a rc.local style directory, Miquel not rc.boot. Miquel But what is so difficult about update-rc.d? It's only one Miquel line in the postinst .. (and one in prerm) It's not

Re: Is /etc/rc.boot/ obsolete or not?

1999-07-05 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Miquel == Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Miquel Well, what's wrong is that there is no certain order of Miquel execution defined for the scripts in /etc/rc.boot. Then we Miquel got things like /etc/rc.boot/0serial and such, so why not Miquel use a system that

Re: Is /etc/rc.boot/ obsolete or not?

1999-07-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Ben Gertzfield: I think both /etc/rcS.d/ and /etc/rc.boot/ have their place, and I know personally that /etc/rc.boot/ is far more convenient for non-packages that need to start up once on bootup and don't want (or care) to know about update-rc.d. Thoughts? It sounds more like

Re: Is /etc/rc.boot/ obsolete or not?

1999-07-05 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Miquel == Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Miquel It sounds more like you want a rc.local style directory, Miquel not rc.boot. Miquel But what is so difficult about update-rc.d? It's only one Miquel line in the postinst .. (and one in prerm) It's not difficult

Is /etc/rc.boot/ obsolete or not?

1999-07-04 Thread Ben Gertzfield
I'm going through my old bug reports, and I remembered people telling me /etc/rc.boot/ is obsolete. But I just went to look at the new policy (I assume 3.0.0.0 is the latest) and it has the same old stuff about /etc/rc.boot/ : (snip) 3.3.4 Boot-time initialization There is another directory,

Re: Is /etc/rc.boot/ obsolete or not?

1999-07-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going through my old bug reports, and I remembered people telling me /etc/rc.boot/ is obsolete. But I just went to look at the new policy (I assume 3.0.0.0 is the latest) and it has the same old stuff about /etc/rc.boot/ :