On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 03:09:59PM -0500, Howard Gibson wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 19:46:24 +0000 (UTC) > William Park via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I need to run a custom script at the later stage of bootup in Debian > > 9.5 (board is BeagleBone Black). I seem to remember "rc.local" > > long ago, but it's gone in the latest Ubuntu and Debian. Online > > search says > > (1) simply create "/etc/rc.local", and systemd will automatically pick it > > up. > > (2) use crontab, "@reboot ..." > > Which is "proper" way in Debian world? > > --William > > William, > > On my Fedora 27 laptop, placing rc.local into /etc/rc.d worked. > > /etc/rc.d/rc.local
That's where it is on Slackware, too. But, I'm working with Debian 9.5 which comes with BeagleBone Black. I tried option (1), and it seems to work. -- William Park <[email protected]> --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
