Gentoo - running scripts at startup

[Marianne Taylor]

On September 8, 2003 17:01, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> I haven't had any problems either and I use rc-update so I guess I've
> gotten used to the way Gentoo does it and can live with it.  Still, part of
> me would like it to be more "standard".  However, the rc-update works very
> well so far.
>
> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > When you install a script from an emerged package, use the rc-update
> > command to do so. It causes the computation of dependencies and makes
> > sure the script might complete. If you just copy a script to boot or
> > wherever, I am not sure that the dependencies will be calculated when the
> > system boots. Anyway, I use the rc-update command and have never had a
> > problem.

I can't remember if I just installed iptables to /etc/runlevels/default myself 
or used the rc-update command.  I have been using that fairly regularily, but 
I will try it again.  Thanks for the explanation of the dependencies.  That 
really helps.