* Mumia W.. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Install the Debian Reference (debian-reference-en) and read ยงยง 2.4.2 and > 2.4.3 and 8.1.4 from /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.txt.gz . I am hoping to sit down this weekend and read through the reference. It looks to be a rather complete coverage of things Debian, and I am quite hopeful it will iron out much I don't know. I have been wondering about specifics for maintenance, such as updates and so on, and I figure that will be well covered in this and other texts. I like the apparent complete approach to documentation in Debian, though so far things have been a little fragmented it seems. I am confident given time everything I need to know will be covered. > You can create a new script such as /etc/init.d/local.sh and put all of > your initialization commands in it. Then you would use update-rc.d to > tell Debian what runlevels to start and stop that script's daemons and > settings, e.g. >
I found /etc/rc.local and it seems to be for the purpose I was looking. Surprising to see it there, as I thought all the init scripts were in /etc/rc... or /etc/init.d. > # # That was a Control-D. We're now out of "cat." > # update-rc.d local.sh start 2 3 4 5 . stop 0 1 6 . > > Read "man update-rc.d" Very helpful little tool. Though I am still wondering why Debian has runlevels 2-5 with no apparent difference between them. I have to quit assuming that one is for console logins. Many thanks again for all this help. Patrick