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

Chris Gehlker yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Nov 5 04:19:00 2003


On Nov 4, 2003, at 8:55 PM, Ed McKnight wrote:

> Was the file created by touch?  --emk

Yes it was. Good point.

>
>
> Chris Gehlker wrote:
>> 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?
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