/etc/init.d

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 07:57 -0500, stan wrote:
> A quick question. On 10.04, if I add a package that is _not_ from the
> Ubuntu respoitries, can I just put it's startup script in /etc/init.d, and
> expect thisngs to get started up on system boot? Or is there more I need to
> do/

Back in the day you would just put it into rc.local. With all of the
changes being made nowadays, no telling if it still exists. There are
times I wish they'd stop improving things. :) Ric

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