Thanks for the info! You're definitely right about rc.local -- I mostly mentioned it as sort of the "greatest common denominator" of boot-time config across Li

Thanks for the info! You're definitely right about rc.local -- I mostly mentioned it as sort of the "greatest common denominator" of boot-time config across Linux distributions. Systemd notwithstanding, every distribution has (had?) its own method of setting the vtty keymap. I didn't know that about Debian's config, though -- that's really neat, and imho how such config should be done (though I'm a Slacker myself). A couple of the more "BSD-ish" distributions do have an rc.conf.local (CRUX comes to mind, and iirc Arch had one in the pre-systemd days). Slackware, at least, still has an rc.local, and it's always the last step in multiuser boot (init 3, or just before the display manager is launched in init 4). Thanks for the FreeBSD info, as well. Unfortunately, my (admittedly ancient) HDD crashed in my FreeBSD box recently (relatedly, if you know where I can find some big-ass IDE/PATA HDDs, I'm on the market... seems like NewEgg doesn't even sell IDE drives anymore, and Amazon's selection is rather shit). nosh sounds really cool. How have I not heard of this before?! Anyway, thanks for the learning :)