Deleted rc.local by mistake

Fredstar · 06-17-2007, 05:41 PM

Please help.. As stated above i deleted my rc.local.. all services are now starting twice because of it at boot. Is there anywhere i could get a backup of this file or could someone running freebsd 6.0 i386 post me a copy so i can download it.

thank you

fukawi2 · 06-17-2007, 08:48 PM

I've only just started playing with FreeBSD, but just looking at my fresh install of 6.2-RELEASE, there is no rc.local file.

Would your rc.local file be one you made yourself? And either way, I don't understand how a missing rc.local file could start all services twice...

frob23 · 06-17-2007, 09:05 PM

There is no rc.local in the base install nor is one required for the boot process. If the file exists it will be run by /etc/rc.d/local but if it doesn't, nothing happens.

There is no reason this would cause all the services to be starting twice. Something else has happened... what else changed?

gani · 06-18-2007, 08:34 AM

rc.local is used only to run on startup local systems.

Your are the one to list scripts to run your local programs in /etc/rc.d/rc.local by editing it or creating a new one.

You have nothing to be alarmed actually.

Fredstar · 06-18-2007, 09:44 AM

I'm sorry i thought the default rc file was rc.local. What im trying to say is that the default rc file that rc.conf overides was deleted.

Found the fix.

All i had to do was add local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d" to my rc.conf and it corrected the issue.
thanks for the help!!

thanks