Gentoo - running scripts at startup

[Federico Voges]

On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 12:09:21 -0700, Marianne Taylor wrote:

>Am I correct in understanding that the scripts in /etc/runlevels/boot and 
>default -- run in alphabetical order?  Where would someone put a command that 
>would have gone in rc.local (so needs to run late)?
>

Nope, Gentoo uses a dependency system to find the execution order.

Check the Gentoo Linux rc-script Guide:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rc-scripts.xml

You'll find all the info there.

There's no rc.local. Instead you have:
/etc/conf.d/local.start
/etc/conf.d/local.stop

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