Alpine Boot

This is a quick note. In Alpine linux you can run start-up scripts by enabling the local service:

rc-update add local default

When this is enabled, it will run all executable scripts that end with .start on start-up and scripts that end with .stop on shutdown.

By default, these scripts would run silently and you will see:

* Starting local ... [ ok ] 

during boot-up if things went well. If there was an error you would see:

* Starting local ... [ !! ] 

To see more details on what happened create the file /etc/conf.d/local with the following:

# /etc/conf.d/local
rc_verbose=yes