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

[Hiren Patel (HN)]

yip Barry is right about the start scripts for local, 
this is what i have on system that has not been updated at all.

[root at localhost rc.d]# pwd
/etc/rc.d
[root at localhost rc.d]# find . -name '*local*' -exec ls -l {} \;
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 220 Jun 23  2003 ./rc.local
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Apr 17 14:53 ./rc3.d/S99local -> ../rc.local
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Apr 17 14:53 ./rc2.d/S99local -> ../rc.local
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Apr 17 14:53 ./rc5.d/S99local -> ../rc.local
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Apr 17 14:53 ./rc4.d/S99local -> ../rc.local
[root at localhost rc.d]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga)
[root at localhost rc.d]# 


On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 08:13 -0500, Barry Brimer wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> Usually '/etc/rc.local' is a symlink to '/etc/rc.d/rc.local'.  By any 
> chance have these become separated and are separate files?  If so, I 
> believe that '/etc/rc.d/rc.local' is what actually gets run, and not 
> '/etc/rc.local'.  Also, although quite unlikely, is there an 'S' script 
> for local in the runlevel you are booting into?  If not, running 
> 'chkconfig local on' will handle that.  Finally, what happens if you run 
> '/etc/rc.d/rc.local' as root from the command line?
> 
> HTH,
> Barry
> 
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