Re: rc.local?

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From: antigonemross Michael Ross
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 05:15

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In article <1993Jan7.213419.7488@ornl.gov> woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)  
writes:
> I have a file rc.local in which I start my gopher daemon
> and a supersrv daemon.  Under 2.1 this worked fine.  Now I find that  
> under 3.0, the script starts and prints out the
> Starting local daemons:
> and then the final .
> 
> In between are the parts to start the two daemons and they don't get  
> started!
> If as su, I type sh /etc/rc.local (exactly what is in the rc script),
> then the rc.local starts both daemons fine.
> 
> Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

Yes 3.0 broke something.

The workaround is to call a shell script from rc.local, not to do anything  
directly in rc.local.

Haven't figured out why...
-- 
Michael Ross
Antigone Press, San Francisco, California
e-mail: mross@antigone.com
FAX: 1-415-431-3650

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