What with /etc/rc.d/rc.local?

[Chris Gehlker]

I'm trying to use it to start a couple of daemons, but no joy. Here is 
my test version:

#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

echo "This file seems to be able to work"

touch /var/lock/subsys/local

Then I reboot and do

dmesg | grep work

But I don't see any output.

To be fair, this doesn't seem to work under Red Hat either.