.. how to put a script to '/etc/rc.d/rc.*?

Hi!

someone knows how to make a program (in '/etc/rc.d/..') runnable, without writing to '../rc.local'.

For example 'rc.cupsd' which is listed there too started automatically at boot, if i try the same with that script called, 'rc.postfix' with equal rights like 'rc.cupsd' -> '755' nothing happens by starting the computer.

So i remember i had red by given' that command 'chmod -x <script>' it will be kept from starting at boot, so i thought the other way '+x' will put it at boot.

[" The command:

chmod -x /etc/rc.d/filename

will keep scripts from running at start time. Keep only what you need, the rest is just weighing you down." from: "Welcome to My Slackware Site".]

Cheers --user_tom

to make a program executable, you are correct in using "chmod +x filename". But to get Slackware to recognize the script and run it, you have to tell it to do so. The easiest way is to edit rc.local and add the script in there with something like:

if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.myscript ]; then
   /etc/rc.d/rc.myscript
fi

It checks to see if rc.myscript is executable and if so, it executes it. I know you didn't want a solution where you had to write to rc.local, but I'm not sure if there is another way.

Try this:

chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/filename

It's not a bad idea to browse your /etc/rc.d/rc.* files to see what's going on.

What I did was make an rc.custom file in rc.d, make it executable +x, and put

if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.custom ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.custom
fi

in rc.local.

Then you only have to add things to the custom file

... thanks a lot for response!

user_tom

... maybe for someone is useful;

This Hint from "jonthelam" has taken what i want.

I don't know why, because there is no process (i have found) with 'master postfix' or 'sendmail', although emails come home!

.. thank you a second time!

user_tom

sendmail is started in rc.M. Don't know about postfix tho

Dive,

have you the pleasure to translate what it means 'rc.M' and '...tho', so

so a newbie like me could understand what it means!

i would be thankfully

user_tom

The file /etc/rc.d/rc.M ...

bruce@silas:~$ less /etc/rc.d/rc.M
#!/bin/sh
#
# rc.M          This file is executed by init(8) when the system is being
#               initialized for one of the "multi user" run levels (i.e.
#               levels 1 through 6).  It usually does mounting of file
#               systems et al.
#
# Version:      @(#)/etc/rc.d/rc.M      2.23    Wed Feb 26 19:20:58 PST 2003
#
# Author:       Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
#               Heavily modified by Patrick Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>
#

# Tell the viewers what's going to happen.
echo "Going multiuser..."
<snip>

And "tho" would be a vernacular or slang for "though".

... so i'm in the picture;

sorry, but i'm german.

It's ok - it's a bad habit I picked up from our American cousins - tho = though, thru = through etc