All I added to rc.local was:
imwheel
cd /home/jo/.../setiathome
/home/jo/...setiathome
This caused the boot process to hang. At least that's what it seemed like. It just
said starting local, but it never said [OK] or [FAILED]. I understand now that it
was due to the setiathome program which interacts with the desktop. Thus the
rc.local file never ended its processing. I didn't know at the time I could stop
it with CTRL-C. I also didn't realize what was going on.
So I rebooted into windows and went to #linux on irc and presented my problem.
They told me I could boot 'Linux single' which should have the effect of not
executing the scripts. So I did.
And I was working as root, able to vi rc.local, without ever telling the system
who I was nor giving a password.
As you may have noticed this has nothing to do with my changes to rc.local. The
script never ran. In fact you can try it yourself: Type 'Linux single' at the LILO
prompt and enjoy the liberty to change all system parameters.
Jo
"James J. Capone" wrote:
> I would still like to know what you did to allow it to do that. I looked in my
> rc.local file and saw nothing that had to do with the login prompt..
>
> Let me know..
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
