[plug] mandrake 9.4 startup

[Daniel Pearson]

My only advice is text only posting.. not HTML ;-)

Cheers,
Daniel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "filpee" <filpee at iinet.net.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 6:51 PM
Subject: [plug] mandrake 9.4 startup


> I have setup a simple firewall script on my linux box which I call from
boot
> using the file /etc/rc.local
>
> Basically I have just tacked on to the end of this file with a line
similar
> to /etc/firewall_script
>
> But this script never seems to get run and I have to manually execute via
> ssh
>
> Is there a way I can query my box to see if the rc.local file is being
run?
>
> I have been led to believe that this is a good place to execute startup
> batch scripts from but maybe there is another file?
>
>
>
> Thanks guys
>
> Phil
>
>
>
> ps im new to this group so if im posting to the wrong section let me know
> where I should be posting. ta
>
>