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- From: antigone!mross (Michael Ross)
- Subject: Re: rc.local?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.051546.1660@antigone.com>
- Sender: mross@antigone.com
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- Organization: Antigone Press, San Francisco, CA, USA
- References: <1993Jan7.213419.7488@ornl.gov>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:15:46 GMT
- Lines: 26
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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...
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- Michael Ross
- Antigone Press, San Francisco, California
- e-mail: mross@antigone.com
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