On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 20:17:53 -0400 Sam Varshavchik mrsam@courier-mta.com wrote:
Kevin Fenzi writes:
On Sat, 05 Jul 2014 19:30:06 -0400 Sam Varshavchik mrsam@courier-mta.com wrote:
R. G. Newbury writes:
That at least works up to the day systemd decides no one needs rc.local and they drop support for it (a day that is sure to come :-).
Direct support for rc.local has already been "deprecated". Somewhere I read something from Lennart and it was clear that he has an almost religious hatred for doing things 'the old way', so much so that rc.local is not 'desired'.
I got the same impression. If it worked, reliably, for decades, it's not desired any more.
I'd love a cite if you can find one... I don't know of any reason it would ever be removed. It doesn't run or do anything if you don't have an rc.local file.
Thanks.
There's no indication there that they intend to ever remove the compatibility there that I can see. Sure, it's depreciated, but should be there for compatibility.
kevin