I must be missing something simple here, but it seems as if my rc.local is not executing. I am running Fedora Core 6.

[localhost]$ ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc.local
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 501 Sep 5 21:24 /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Last 3 lines of rc5.d:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 18 2007 S99firstboot -> ../init.d/firstboot
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 18 2007 S99local -> ../rc.local
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 18 2007 S99smartd -> ../init.d/smartd

Is there any way to verify that it actually ran? Fedora starts to show all it's services in a GUI screen saying either [OK] or [FAILED] so even if I add an echo statement I cannot see the output (either that or its just not running). Any ideas here on what is going on?

You seem confused.

1. /etc/rc.d/rc.local is a shell file to which you can add extra cmds you want to run at start-up, if an equiv is not already avail in the relevant rcX.d dir.

2. rc5.d is a dir, not a file. It's contents ie various shell files (actually via symlinks) are run if the system is started up in the initdefault=5 mode ie multi-user with X-windows.

3. If you want to check whether rc.local is being called correctly, add an extra line at the bottom of the file to eg touch a file in your home dir. Note that rc.local will be run as the root user.

HTH

I'm not confused, but what I posted was misleading.

"Last 3 lines of rc5.d:" should have read

Last 3 lines of:
[localhost ]$ ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc5.d

Before I posted I tried adding "touch testfile.txt" to rc.local And no file was ever created in /etc/rc.d/. Since rc.local is being run as root this should have created a file somewhere, with no permissions to get in the way, right?

Am I correct in thinking that root runs init, which in turn runs all the startup scripts? If this is the case I would expect "touch testfile.txt" to have worked and put the file in the current working directory. Would this be /sbin/ since this is where init resides? Maybe it did work and I just dont know where to look for it.

When I get home I'll try doing "touch /home/username/testfile.txt" and see what that does.

I'll also try using find to look for the acutal file.

I got it working. Thanks for the help. Don't think there was anything wrong just a mistake in my script so even though it was being called, nothing was happening.