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Subject: Re: /etc/rc.local
In-Reply-To: <19981212001742.L29799@kublai.com> from Brian Cully at "Dec 12, 1998  0:17:42 am"
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Brian Cully writes:
> > Yes, it wouldn't be hard to do it, but I don't exactly see a point
> > doing it. rc.local is empty and usually it stays empty (or almost empty).
> 
> It does? I've rarely worked with a machine that has an empty
> rc.local.  What if I want to run MySQL, or Apache, or ftpd in stand
> alone mode, or any of the millions of other things that people can
> do in rc.local?
> 
> I'd say that the common case is that rc.local has custom stuff in
> it.
> 
> In any event, I know I'm not the only sysadmin that looks for
> stuff in rc.local.

I've meant that rc.local from the distribution is practially empty.
There's no point updating it with sysinstall.
All it does - it reads rc.conf variables (if you allow it) and
either based on that (or not) executes some stuff.
I find it kinda convenient in it's _current_ mode.

> 
> -bjc
> 

-- dima

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