Two Questions

On Nov 2, 2003, at 7:56 AM, Matt Alexander wrote:

> Chris Gehlker said:
>> How come Red Hat has two versions of rc.local, one in /etc and
>> another
>> in /etc/rc.d?
>
> /etc/rc.local is a symlink to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Doh

>
>> How come I can't get either one to work?
>
> Need more info.

Here is what I have:
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
> # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
> # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
>
>
> echo "This rc.local script is running"
>

> if [ -x /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd]; then
>     echo "Starting smbd..."
>     /usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -D
>     echo "Starting nmbd..."
>     /usr/local/samba/sbin/nmbd -D
> fi

>
> touch /var/lock/subsys/local

I added everything but the comments and the last line. So when I
restart I would expect to at least see the comment. But when I do
dmesg | grep rc.local
the result is an empty line.