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- Path: sparky!uunet!ihz.compuserve.com!sam
- From: sam@csi.compuserve.com (Sam Neely)
- Subject: Re: inittab problems with Dell 2.2
- Message-ID: <By1Csu.4IE@csi.compuserve.com>
- Organization: CompuServe Incorporated
- References: <105@jassys.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:22:05 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <105@jassys.UUCP> tony@jassys.UUCP (Tony Holden) writes:
- >We've just picked up a copy of Dell 2.2 and have run into a problem.
- >
- >I'm trying to add a line to /etc/inittab to run a script that starts
- >up database servers & such. It's never run. Here's how it looks:
- >
- >rclocal:23:wait:/usr/local/rc.local > /dev/sysmsg 2>&1 < /dev/console
- ^^^^^^^
- First of all, inittab(4) says that the id should be a 1 to 4 character
- tag. Could this be the problem?
-
- >The script itself is fine, has been used for years now. For some
- >reason this entry is never executed when the system is bought up.
-
- Another possibility: (just grasping at straws, here...) Is the
- script flagged as executable?
-
- >I can work around it by putting a line in rc2 but that's not the way I
- >want to do it. I have other systems in the field and I want things to
- >be setup in the same manner. I don't want to have to remember the
- >differences between this system and that.
-
- As an alternative, how about setting up the script so it can be
- dropped into the /etc/init.d directory and then linked over to
- /etc/rc2.d?
-
- >Thanks in advance.
-
- No problem.
-
- >Tony Holden live on the edge,
- >tony@jassys Bank in Texas
- >jassys!tony@rwsys.lonestar.org
-
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