On 04/10/2011 06:37 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> You're missing over 20 years of pain and paranoia (which describes my
> IT career). It's not wildly unreasonable for a one-off. I've had to
> deal with lots of cluttered rc.local's, and unweave them, to stabilize
> systems. Deploying this kind of tweak to, say, 20 systems running kvm
> is a lot easier if you can put it in a separate cron script.


Non-admin level users should not be tweaking around in either
rc.local or anything in init.d for that matter.

My first forays into init.d caught me having to boot into rescue
mode and and fix them.  Worse than anything I did in rc.local.
(Oh yes, there is a magic keystroke to cancel a frozen start up
command, but I never remember what it is.  So, I start pressing
all kinds of keys and find out the hard way what the rest of them do.)

And I only edit this stuff in that horrible vi editor.  vi about killed
me to learn!

I feel your pain.  Point taken.   :'(

-T