/etc/rc.local not running contents on boot

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:01:32PM -0700, Admin wrote:
> Rashkae wrote:
> > 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
> 
> 
> yup its there
> 
> # ls -l /etc/rc2.d/S99*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2009-06-05 00:57 /etc/rc2.d/S99acpi-support -> 
> ../init.d/acpi-support
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2009-06-05 00:57 /etc/rc2.d/S99laptop-mode -> 
> ../init.d/laptop-mode
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2009-06-05 00:57 /etc/rc2.d/S99ondemand -> 
> ../init.d/ondemand
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2009-06-05 00:57 /etc/rc2.d/S99rc.local -> 
> ../init.d/rc.local
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2009-06-05 00:57 /etc/rc2.d/S99rmnologin -> 
> ../init.d/rmnologin
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2009-06-05 00:57 /etc/rc2.d/S99stop-readahead 
> -> ../init.d/stop-readahead

Please post also
% ls -l /etc/init.d/rc.local /etc/rc.local
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 788 2008-10-14 15:02 /etc/init.d/rc.local
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 306 2008-07-02 12:16 /etc/rc.local

if a script isn't executable, it won't be run - an easy way
to temporarily disable services.

HTH
  Siggy

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