Why does RHEL 5 ignore /etc/rc.local?

[Timo Schoeler]

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Hi list,

I run uCARP [0] on a RHEL 5 machine (with recent updates) and it *did*
run until recently, i.e. 'did run' means that it was started
from /etc/rc.local when booting.

(NB: I couldn't find a *functioning* package on the net, so I built it
from src; however, I didn't have time yet to code some RC script for
this... That's why I use /etc/rc.local.)

When I pulled the updates on June 22nd it seems to have b0rked my
machine -- it totally ignores /etc/rc.local (I tested this by touch(0)
ing a file from inside /etc/rc.local -- the file wasn't created, no
output/error message on console, though).

Any hints?

[0] -- http://www.ucarp.org/project/ucarp

Thanks in advance & best regards,

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