[ILUG] Re: slackware (was: Esat ADSL)

[Rick Moen]

Quoting John P. Looney (valen at tuatha.org):

>  Problem with that (and I'd a bug filed in RedHat 6.1 or something against
> it) was that rc.local gets run if you do:
> 
>  init 6 (runs rc.local on reboot)
>  init s
>  init 2 (runs it again)
>  init s
>  init 2 (runs it again)
> 
>  etc. you get it run many times, with is not the semantics of an rc.local.

Ah, a point.  But it sounds easy to fix:

1.  Make /etc/init.d/rc.local create a flag file the first time it's run.
2.  Make it do nothing if the flag exists.
3.  Put something in /etc/rc.boot to delete the flag early each boot-up.

I might be missing something, but that's off the top of my head.

> And it's still a pain. Which is why that simple crontab @reboot is a
> better solution.

Personally, I don't think I should have to look in a crontab to find
startup scripts.  But whatever works for you.

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