[plug] mandrake 9.4 startup

[Craig Ringer]

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 19:18, James Devenish wrote:

> To which operating systems does that apply? rc.local is a BSD-style
> file (found in /etc), while /etc/rc.d sounds like a SysV directory.
> Sounds odd to hear that rc.local would be found typically be found
> within /etc/rc.d :-)

Nonetheless, on most RH-like distros that's where it lives. rc.local is
a useful BSD-style init feature that's been bashed into the SYSV-like
init system used on most linux distros, because it's often more
convenient for sysadmins to use than writing proper init scripts for
things that need only happen once, on startup.

Craig Ringer