/etc/rc.local

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Aug 24, 2007 8:42 AM EDT
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This for the “how the hell have I done this job this long & not known this already?” files. Debian has a file called /etc/rc.local which runs at the end of all the multi-user boot levels, and which you can therefore put stuff in. I’ve had trouble with autofs not starting properly on certain machines (there seems to be a correlation with SCSI or SATA rather than IDE drives, although I do not know why this should be), and putting the line /etc/init.d/autofs restart in /etc/rc.local, whilst arguably a hack, does the trick just fine.

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/etc/rc.local exists on RedHat based systems as well Igor 3 934 Aug 24, 2007 11:39 PM

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