Commanding rc.local not to run at boot..possible.?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sun Apr 10 11:11:05 UTC 2005


Mark Sargent wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> have a script in rc.local that hangs the machine at boot(I was seeing if 
> the system here at home would do the same as my work PC, which it did, 
> unfortunately). How can I instruct the boot process not to process 
> rc.local. Is it possible from the command line to do this, and could you 
> tell me what the command would be.? Knoppix3.7 doesn't recognize LVM, so 
> I can't mount the partition and make a change to rc.local and booting 
> with telinit 3 still gets the hang. Cheers.

Boot to runlevel 1. You then then edit the script.

Paul.




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