[ale] rc.local

[SAngell at nan.net]

Doh! Well I didn't need to go into that much detail. Panic makes one stupid I
guess. I fixed problem. Single user mode and modified the script that was being
launched by rc.local. Fixed the problem. Thanks guy.

Steve Angell,  MCSE, CCNA
MIS Operations Manager
TSYS Total Debt Management
Phone 770-409-5570
Fax      770-416-1752


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> I have made a change to rc.local and now I can't get into my system. How can I
> bypass rc.local on startup so I can get into system to correct my mistake.

Generally booting into single user mode does the trick. What I ususally do
is change the init process to a shell. That way none of the boots scripts
get run:

lilo> linux init=/bin/sh rw

The rw (read/write) is important because the root filesystem is normally
mounted read only for file system checking. Edit your files, sync the
filesystem, and CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot. The root filesystem won't be clean
becaus there's no script to ummount it. But your changes will stick.

Hope this helps,

BAJ



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