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

[Mark Sargent]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 16:52 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
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>>Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>>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,
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>>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.
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>I just use vi. No doubt others use emacs. It's very useful to be able to
>use terminal-based editors because (a) they are portable and you can
>reasonably expect to find them on an Unix-type system you use, (b) they
>work over slow dial-up links, and (c) they work in a single-user or
>rescue type environment when there may be no GUI-based editor available.
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>Paul.
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Hi All,

thanx, Paul...vi is cool..seems very robust...cheers.

Mark Sargent.