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"Ken Thomson" <kthomson@zip.com.au> writes:

>I'm hoping someone can throw light on this puzzling problem...

>I've just installed Slackware 96 off the Infomagic Sept. CDs.

>Being the type who likes playing around, I started to look at the startup
>scripts in /etc/rc.d.  But after a little experimentation, I'm very confused. 
>It appears that init is not using the runlevel 3 script (rc.M) from /etc/rc.d.
> No matter how I modify this script, the changes are not reflected at boot-up.
> And looking at the original script - it definitely was never executed.  Yet
>init is definitely running *some* multi-user startup script from somewhere on
>the system.  I've checked inittab - and it says runlevel 3 (the default
>runlevel) starts /etc/rc.d/rc.M.

>Anyone have any ideas as to what could be happening here?  Does init (I'm
>assuming slackware still uses the SysV init) still use inittab in /etc? Am I
>just losing it :-) ?

No.... i just think that Slakware has lost it :(

The Slakware distribution is getting worse *everytime* it comes out...
theres already some bugfixes for it ... like the /a1 directory ...

oh well..

>Any help would be appreciated.

sorry i couldnt help ... but i havent gotten my set yet :)
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>`O.o' Ken Thomson (kthomson@zip.com.au) | #include <std_disclaimer> |   Ook!
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Anthony.
agreen@uow.edu.au