[Cse498-fall2000] /etc/rc.local WTF?

[Cory Spitz]

Oops.  I knew that.  I'm dumb.  Proof that I stayed up too late last night.

Thanks,
-Cory


Matthew Mercieca wrote:

> Cory Spitz wrote:
> >
> > 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*
>
>         You should be able to read the file, but isn't it in
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> ?
> Doing an
> ls rc.*
> will also give the contents to the rc.d directory, where rc.local lives.
> I can read the file in a Redhat system, so I assume that you can in
> Mandrake.
> --
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