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- From: sjaak@athena.research.ptt.nl (Sjaak Schilperoort)
- Subject: Re: rc.local & routeing
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 14:01:37 GMT
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- epeisach@athena.mit.edu (Ezra Peisach) writes:
-
- >I would suggest that you have an explicit path to route
- >(/etc/route or /usr/etc/route) - the path set by init does not
- >have /etc in its path (if memory servers me correctly.
- >
- >You might want to modify the line to have
- >
- >> /dev/console 2>&1
- >
- >at the end of the line so you can see what errors show up...
-
- I would suggest to put
-
- exec > /dev/console 2>&1
-
- as first command in /etc/rc.local, and redirect output you don't want
- to see to /dev/null. This is a much better default than the other way
- around.
-
- Sjaak.
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- Sjaak Schilperoort J.W.Schilperoort@research.ptt.nl
- PTT Research, The Netherlands
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