How to start rsync daemon at boot

[Jeremiah Foster]

On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 04:36 +0100, GrumpySmurf wrote:
> Edit /etc/init.d/rsync or  /etc/default/rsync and change the following
> line:
> 

Is this the general, accepted way to do this on Ubuntu and debian-like
systems? The UNIXy way was to move scripts in /etc/rc5.d/. For example
one would have moved S80rsync to K20rsync and rsync would not have been
booted when run level five was starting up programs. Has the procedure
been modified for linux?

If so that is sort of broken. Largely because not everyone provides an
interface when they build their scripts. When one runs an arbitrary
invoke-rc.d <script> you may or may not get a response.

Isn't it better if we had a unified interface to manage scripts and not
the hodge-podge of editing /etc/init.d/*, /etc/rc{0-6}.d/*
and /etc/default/*?


Jeremiah