/etc/rc.local not running contents on boot

[Admin]

Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> 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
> 
> 


Siggy,

already checked that - that's not the problem.  htey are Both executable.

$ ls -l /etc/init.d/rc.local /etc/rc.local
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 522 Jan 23 15:20 /etc/init.d/rc.local
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 306 Feb 20 09:18 /etc/rc.local