/etc/rc.local not running contents on boot

[Rashkae]

Admin wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am finding that the contents of /etc/rc.local are not getting executed 
> at reboot time.  I am trying to figure out why.  When I run 
> /etc/rc.local as root things run fine.  What is going on here?
> 

Is rc.local still in your start up sequence?

if you run ls -l /etc/rc2.d

you should find a S99rc.local that points to /etc/init.d/rc.local

You might also want to make sure that other start-up scripts aren't
getting stuck, halting the entire boot-up process.  I've noticed on one
Jaunty notebook that it can take as much as 30 seconds from the time I
was able to log in to gnome desktop successfully before the system start
up even reaches the S99 scripts.  (I haven't bothered to investigate
which script between gdm and S99 is taking so long)