Files appearing at boot in xinetd.d and rc.d

[Mark Sargent]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 14:10 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
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>>thanx, indeed, gedit does that..that's rediculous..I haveta remove the
>>backed up file each time I make a change with gedit...as I said,
>>rediculous..cheers, though, as that removes 1 thought to why snort is
>>now not even trying to initialize at boot..cheers.
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>If you've been editing rc.local with gedit, you may find that rc.local
>is no longer an executable file, and that might account for it not
>running.
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># chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.local
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>Paul.
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Hi All,

that's very interesting and very annoying too.  What should I edit with 
then, so I don't have backup files created when not needed and don't 
need to chmod the file, again..?..rediculous..cheers, anyway, Paul.

Mark Sargent.