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 ca

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=10357589 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11550802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11550802 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14736175 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 http://jdebp.info./FGA/rc.local-is-history.html