Re: All New rc2.d Scripts get Ignored. Debian from KNOPPIX Solved!

2007-08-31 Thread Martin McCormick
Sometimes, I don't exactly feel like the brightest bulb on the tree, ( insert your favorite euphemism for dull-wittedness.) When I originally posted my problem and said that the only thing the scripts that refused to run had in common was that I had put them there, I was very close

Re: All New rc2.d Scripts get Ignored. Debian from KNOPPIX

2007-08-30 Thread Martin McCormick
"Douglas A. Tutty" writes: > If you have a paralell port you could print to a printer with a paralell > port and find a way to get that read. Or, if the box has USB, you could > hook up a usb/serial adapter and use that. See the > remote-serial-console-HOWTO for details. Great ideas. The

Re: All New rc2.d Scripts get Ignored. Debian from KNOPPIX

2007-08-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:53:42AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > When I usually install Linux, I use a serial console. > That is not an option as there are no native serial ports on > this system. I need every screen message to go to a file > somewhere and that may tell me something new.

Re: All New rc2.d Scripts get Ignored. Debian from KNOPPIX

2007-08-30 Thread Martin McCormick
Bob McGowan writes: > During startup, /etc/inittab uses the /etc/init.d/rc script to run the > various scripts in the rc?.d directories. It has a commented out line for > debugging. If you uncomment it, from what I can see, it will tell you what > it's doing. It looks like this will propagate to th

Re: All New rc2.d Scripts get Ignored. Debian from KNOPPIX

2007-08-28 Thread Bob McGowan
Martin McCormick wrote: I installed the newest and probably last Oralux KNOPPIX distribution from a live CD to the hard disk on a laptop and it almost works right. I must not have the right magic touch because I needed to add 2 more startup scripts in /etc/rc2.d in order to start a softwa

All New rc2.d Scripts get Ignored. Debian from KNOPPIX

2007-08-28 Thread Martin McCormick
I installed the newest and probably last Oralux KNOPPIX distribution from a live CD to the hard disk on a laptop and it almost works right. I must not have the right magic touch because I needed to add 2 more startup scripts in /etc/rc2.d in order to start a software speech synthesizer and