On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:12:54PM +0100, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
> For example for PostgreSQL, I wanted to benefit for such a feature but I
> wasn't really enthusiastic about placing scripts in /etc/rc.d (I prefer
> to keep things orthogonal between system and local additions, I mean
> clearly identifying in the file system hierarchy what is added).

Placing them in /etc/rc.d is the easiest way, we can easily introduce a
second directory though. The problem is that the boot processing needs
to be able to read all scripts, so they have to be installed on /, the
rest is a number of small changes to read the second directory.

Joerg