Re: Q re missing rc.local file

2005-08-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 August 2005 11:03, Bob Proulx wrote: [...] >> > cp skeleton localrc >> > editor localrc # edit as you desire >> >> Ahh, that I can handle. I take it it gets sourced if it exists as >> localrc? > >It gets sourced because it has a symlink to it (created with >update-rc.d in my exampl

Re: Q re missing rc.local file

2005-08-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Gene Heskett wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > On Debian there is no difference (by default) to the different run > > levels. This is an often confusing point to people switching to > > Debian. And the converse that run levels are meaningful to people > > switching to Red Hat. > > Yes, among other

Re: Q re missing rc.local file

2005-08-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Yes, among other things if its setup for a graphical login, but I want > > to first do a text login followed by a startx. How then is this > > accomplished? > > Decide which runlevel you want for that (likely 2) and then delete the > symlinks t

Re: Q re missing rc.local file

2005-08-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 03:26:12PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 04 August 2005 12:47, Bob Proulx wrote: > >Gene Heskett wrote: > >> I have a fairly lengthy list of things I've added to > >> the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, which is softlinked from S99local in > >> the various rcX.d director

Re: Q re missing rc.local file

2005-08-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 August 2005 12:47, Bob Proulx wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> I have a fairly lengthy list of things I've added to >> the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, which is softlinked from S99local in >> the various rcX.d directories in RH & Fedora and is the last thing >> executed before the login sc

Re: Q re missing rc.local file

2005-08-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Gene Heskett wrote: > I have a fairly lengthy list of things I've added to > the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, which is softlinked from S99local in the > various rcX.d directories in RH & Fedora and is the last thing > executed before the login screen in a RG/Fedora runlevel 3 boot. On Debian there