[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#585769: /sbin/init: Startup scripts into /etc/rc2.d are not started !!

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

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> I am using since all version of debian, since several years those
> scripts into rc2.d
> 
> /etc/rc2.d/S10rc2400 
> that I chmod +rx 
> 
> and 
> /etc/rc2.d/S88boot
> chmoded too.
> 
> so I upgraded to squeeze and found this important bug.
> 
> Those scripts arent loaded at boot of the PC.

This approach is not supported, and probably never was.  It is not the
way SysV init is designed to work.  The init.d scripts should be in
/etc/init.d/, and be symlinked to from /etc/rcX.d/.

You need to move the scripts and symlink them from rc2.d/ for this to
work.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen