[mythtv-users] [OT] rc.local not running

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Mon Dec 13 22:28:27 UTC 2004


On Monday 13 December 2004 13:40, Paul Hamm wrote:
> The best place to put this is under
> /etc/profile.d/my_favorite_profile_settings.sh When done you will be
> able to access the MYKERNAL variable from any logged in user.

Ah, yes, that's a much nicer way to do it. I'll roll with that when I get 
around to making changes. Probably just drop a kver.sh file 
into /etc/profile.d/.



> On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 16:16, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 13 December 2004 12:56, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
> > > >>> "Mark Gardner" <markgard at gmail.com> 12/13/2004 3:43:07 PM >>>
> > > >
> > > >in Jarods Guide there is a line you add to RC.local to have $MYKERNEL
> > > >variable.  i have the following in rc.local but it does not survive
> > > >reboot.  Other things that happen too: there's and extra line to add
> > > >so the newer 350s don't have a green screen or blue line on the right
> > > >side.  Those don't survive reboot also.
> > > >
> > > >export MYKERNEL=`uname -r`
> > >
> > > I just noticed that problem with MYKERNEL as well.
> > >
> > > I moved it to /etc/rc.d/rc.local and it works fine now.
> >
> > /etc/rc.local is a symlink to /etc/rc.d/rc.local on my boxes, created at
> > install time... However, I'm not certain that the variable is actually
> > set for anyone but root, using a true root shell (either by logging in as
> > root or using 'su -'). Might be better to stash that in both
> > /root/.bash_profile and /home/mythtv/.bash_profile instead.

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