[systemd-devel] rc-local.service ordering

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Mar 1 12:57:37 PST 2011


On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 09:47:14PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> I think the rc-local is a broken concept: the semantics of having a
> service running after everything else are just broken, and usually just
> something people want to do to avoid thinking about ordering.

Yes! 

Sysadmins who want to start something in a kludgy get-it-going-on boot way
*exactly* want to avoid thinking about ordering. That's what rc.local is
*for*.



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