Timeline for what happened to /etc/inittab?
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| Oct 20, 2015 at 8:39 | comment | added | MSalters | @noodlesandnoodles: It's more a legacy thing. There's nothing it it because all the logic has moved to systemd files. And if you don't fork the NoIP thing, the boot process would have to wait (this is annoying, not harmful). | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 1:56 | comment | added | noodlesandnoodles | I think I understand. So even though the script's only function is to start NoIP upon system startup, if you don't fork the NoIP process, when the script finishes running the NoIP process would be killed? | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 1:33 | comment | added | goldilocks | It says "does nothing" because there's nothing in it to do (it's all yours). But don't paste the whole script in, because whatever happens there should exit ASAP -- generally by forking to create a new background process (which can run as long as it likes). The shell operator for this is &, e.g. /path/to/whatever & will start whatever in the background. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 0:47 | comment | added | noodlesandnoodles | @dastaan right now rc.local has a comment that says "by default this script does nothing", and it also seems to print the IP address. Would doing this be as simple as pasting the script given in the readme of NoIP into rc.local instead of (what I'm guessing is) just a filler IP address printer? | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 0:32 | vote | accept | noodlesandnoodles | ||
| Oct 19, 2015 at 12:52 | answer | added | goldilocks | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 19, 2015 at 8:33 | comment | added | dhruvvyas90 | How about calling that script in rc.local. As by the time rc.local is executed, all most every other services including networking and all are up. | |
| Oct 19, 2015 at 8:09 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 19, 2015 at 8:05 | history | asked | noodlesandnoodles | CC BY-SA 3.0 |