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Re:Linux distros without systemd by JdeBP on Monday May 20, 2019 @11:42AM (#19961559)
BSD rc scripts haven't worked in the way that you think that they have, for decades.

Mewburn rc, which reduced many rc scripts to a couple of shell function calls and a handful of variable declarations, has been used by NetBSD since 2001, and FreeBSD started using it about a year later. OpenBSD, furthermore, reinvented Mewburn rc around 8 years ago. Project Trident (formerly TrueOS formerly PC-BSD) has also since then switched from Mewburn rc to OpenRC.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10357589

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11550802

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14736175

/etc/rc.local was first declared obsolete in the BSD world and replaced by a system of drop-in files in a directory back in 1995.

* http://jdebp.info./FGA/rc.local-is-history.html

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Re:Linux distros without systemd by yellowapple on Monday May 20, 2019 @09:56PM (#19967027)
> /etc/rc.local was first declared obsolete in the BSD world and replaced by a system of drop-in files in a directory back in 1995.

OpenBSD still documents it as an implicitly-recommended way to start programs (though if it's possible to start it via e.g. rc.(local.)conf, then that's obviously preferable).

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