Hi there!

When I start Slackware, for some reason /etc/rc.d/rc.local is ignored,
although it is executable. When I run it manually after boot, then it
is executed. Any idea what could be the reason?

Some info:

************************************************** ****************
bash-2.05b# ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc.local
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 251 2004-02-19 02:07 /etc/rc.d/rc.local
************************************************** ****************

************************************************** ****************
bash-2.05b# less /etc/rc.d/rc.local
#!/bin/bash
#
# /etc/rc.d/rc.local: Local system initialization script.
#
# Put any local setup commands in here:
/sbin/sysctl -p

## Deutsches Keyboard
/usr/bin/loadkeys de-latin1-nodeadkeys
************************************************** ****************

Thanks for tips!

Cheerz Lars

Lars Behrens wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> When I start Slackware, for some reason /etc/rc.d/rc.local is ignored,
> although it is executable. When I run it manually after boot, then it
> is executed. Any idea what could be the reason?

rc.local is called from /etc/rc.d/rc.M it is the very last section.

# Start the local setup procedure.
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.local ]; then
. /etc/rc.d/rc.local
fi

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* Lars Behrens <Spam.Buster@web.de> writes:

> When I start Slackware, for some reason /etc/rc.d/rc.local is ignored,
> although it is executable. When I run it manually after boot, then it
> is executed. Any idea what could be the reason?

Check /etc/rc.d/rc.M. Right at the bottom there should be something
like...

if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.local ]; then
. /etc/rc.d/rc.local
fi


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> ************************************************** ****************
> bash-2.05b# less /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> # /etc/rc.d/rc.local:**Local*system*initialization*script.
> #
> # Put any local setup commands in here:
> /sbin/sysctl -p
>
> [...]
>

Have you modified other scripts in /etc/rc.d?

If in rc.M it's all Ok (see the posts before mine), then try to see if
you have errors or exit commands in other scripts, not only rc.local.

You can see this on console at boot time.

Or give us a clue with "cat /dev/vcs1"... after de boot time, and not
logged in on tty1.

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Claudiu Cismaru

In <c114ff$1d1bf7$1@ID-95936.news.uni-berlin.de>, Lars Behrens wrote:

> Hi there!
>
> When I start Slackware, for some reason /etc/rc.d/rc.local is ignored,
> although it is executable. When I run it manually after boot, then it
> is executed. Any idea what could be the reason?
>

Maybe you upgraded something and the *.new files in /etc/rc.d mess up the
course of action... I had this problem once.

Good luck

Franz

PS: /usr/bin/loadkeys de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map is supposed to be in
/etc/rc.d/rc.keymap.


--
Franz M. Sauerzopf
Atominstitut, TU Wien

Lars Behrens <Spam.Buster@web.de> wrote:
> When I start Slackware, for some reason /etc/rc.d/rc.local is ignored,
> although it is executable. When I run it manually after boot, then it
> is executed. Any idea what could be the reason?

rc.local should be, as other already told you, be the last script
executed by rc.M. But it executes OTHER scripts first, and as these
are NOT run in sub-shells, any script that executes a "exit", or
"return", will terminate the whole execution of rc.M, so anything beyond
THAT script will not be run anymore.

So look at what else the rc.M is executing, and how far it comes.
Putting some echo's in the rc.M (to a file or so) will show you how
far it comes and so help localize the problem.
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Eef Hartman wrote:

> rc.local should be, as other already told you, be the last script
> executed by rc.M. But it executes OTHER scripts first, and as these
> are NOT run in sub-shells, any script that executes a "exit", or
> "return", will terminate the whole execution of rc.M, so anything
> beyond THAT script will not be run anymore.
>
> So look at what else the rc.M is executing, and how far it comes.
> Putting some echo's in the rc.M (to a file or so) will show you how
> far it comes and so help localize the problem.

Thanks, your tip helped! There was a wrong call of Alsa in rc.M
( "/etc/rc.d/rc.alsa" instead of "/etc/rc.d/rc.alsa start") so the
Script exited.

Thank you and the others for the support!

Cheerz Lars

Franz M. Sauerzopf wrote:

> PS: /usr/bin/loadkeys de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map is supposed to be in
> /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap.

I know, just put it there for testing...

Thanks!

Cheerz Lars