/etc/rc.local WTF?

[Daniel R . Kilbourne]

although in RH 7.0 they now have sym links from /etc/rc.d/rc* to /etc/rc*




On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 06:48:20AM -0400, Sean spake:

> That is one of the major differences between a RH based system and other
> systems. They move a few other files around too. 
> 
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Jeffrey Utter wrote:
> 
> > The rc.local file is in /etc/rc.d which get's listed in the ls but isn't
> > acctually in the /etc dir...
> > 
> > I think...  hope it helps.. 
> > 
> > Jeff U.
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, 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*
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
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