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

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 22:00 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > Mark Sargent.
> >
> I just went through this, and reading through the posts, I'm surprised 
> no one mentioned this:
> Right after the kernel is unpacked in the beginning of boot, you get a 
> dialogue telling you to press 'I' for interactive mode. Do that, and 
> each command in the bootup gives you a Y/N dialogue. rc.local should be 
> the very last command, and it will say something like 'start local? Y|N' 
> pressing N will bypass rc.local.
> 

Claude,

Have you tried that and made it work?   8-)

This is what I see in rc.sysinit (which gives that message).
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if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then
 echo -en $"\t\tPress 'I' to enter interactive startup."
 echo
fi
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I don't find anything in the script to ever even read the input, let
alone assign the input to a variable or use it. 

If you can tell me where it is ever assigned/used in the script I would
appreciate it.  Maybe I can learn something about scripting. :-)

Jeff
> -- 
> Claude Jones
> Bluemont, VA, USA
>