/etc/rc.local WTF?

[Cory Spitz]

Hey, I'm running Mandrake 7.0 and am pretty stumped.  What the heck does
this mean?

# cat /etc/rc.local
cat: /etc/rc.local: No such file or directory
# ls /etc/rc.local
ls: /etc/rc.local: No such file or directory
# ls /etc/rc.*
init.d/  rc.firewall  rc.modules*  rc0.d/  rc2.d/  rc4.d/  rc6.d/
rc*      rc.local*    rc.sysinit*  rc1.d/  rc3.d/  rc5.d/

What is this?  Is Mandrake 'hiding' the file from me? It's permisions
are:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1430 Sep  5 09:04 rc.local*



BTW, I installed Debian (potato) on my home PC last night and I do say
that apt-get rocks!   Now, can I install my ISA AWE64 sound card without
compiling a kernel?  I looked up a HOW-TO and it said I did, but it
looked kind of old.  I didn't have to do that when I ran RedHat 6.2.
Thanks.