Debian equivalent

[John Heim]

Somewhere out there on the internet deep in an archive is a message from me 
asking the same question.  What is the debian equivalent of the rc.local? 
I'm going to giveyou the same answer someone gave me and -- fair warning -- 
when I got this answer I would not accept it.

You don't need an rc.local and, in fact, it's better to not have one. 
Everything in your rc.local belongs somewhere else.

My initial reaction to the guy who told me that was "You are crazy". I 
argued with him about it. For instance, what about my fire wall script? 
What you can do, he pointed out, was trigger it in your ifup script so it 
runs only if you actually have a network connection.

that's just an example. 'm not  nearly the guru that this other guy was. So 
if you give me examples, I'm probably not going to be able to convince you. 
In fact, this other guy didn't convince me.  What happened was that i 
gradually figured out better ways to do things and eventually, the 
rc.local  I rigged up became empty.

The one thing I can tell you right away though is that to start daemons in 
debian, you put a script in /etc/init.d/ and then create symlinks to it in 
the directorys for  different run levels.  I did a quick google search for 
docs on starting services in debian. I'm not saying this is the best 
tutorial out there but it it looks pretty good:

http://www.servepath.com/support/debian_setupchecklist.htm


At 07:48 PM 3/20/2006, you wrote:
>Can anyone tell me if there is a debian equivalent of /etc/rc.d/rc.local?
>this is usually where you might store certain local settings in other
>distros.
>I want to use it to pass a few parameters to Speakup at boot time.
>thanks.
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