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atombender on July 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ t...

Maybe you're thinking of /etc/rc.local, which is a script on *BSD where you could just dump random commands, which would then be executed at startup. Last I checked, this mechanism is still supported, but not really the way to do it.

dredmorbius on July 10, 2017 [–]

That too, though the main RC script existed too. Lots of environment variable tests.

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