On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:37:51 -0800 Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 01:18:34PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > > > > I tend to agree. Dear co-maintainers, do you have objections? Any > > > > I do have an objection — a veto even. > > > > Installation instructions throughout the world say that “add the > > following script lines to /etc/rc.local”. None of them says to > > add the +x bit, and that’s arcane anyway (in BSD, rc.local is > > run even without the +x bit set). > > > > I would be massively surprised if I installed a system, added > > something to rc.local, and it were not run. > > The comments at the top of that script explicitly say: > > # In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution > # bits. > > Are you saying that even *with* that comment you'd be surprised? > > (Personally, I *wish* that /etc/rc.local didn't exist at all by default > and you had to *create* it if you wanted it used.)
Just wanted to chime in here: A default Debian installation using systemd will no longer create a /etc/rc.local file. If you have such a file, this means you probably have an older system which was upgraded. sysvinit is of course free to create and ship such a file by default but I think /etc/rc.local is a bad interface, so the systemd package will not create it on its own. Regards, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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