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

[Chris Gehlker]

On Nov 4, 2003, at 8:02 PM, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 21:44, Chris Gehlker wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Dmesg lists kernel-level messages (iirc), so echo wouldn't make it
> there.

Hmm... OK is there some way to test if rc.local is actually being run?