Subject: Re: quick stupid question....
To: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 09/21/2000 08:33:56
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, David Woyciesjes wrote:
> Apologies, but I'm looking for an answer to a stupid question I
> have. I want to run the command "/rp-pppoe-2.3/adsl-start" at boot time, so
> I put it in "/etc/rc.local", like it said in the docs. But when I reboot, I
> got "permission denied". My guess is it (the command) needs to be run as
> root somehow. Should that line go in a different file? Yes, I did all the
> tweaking as root, since this machine won't have the need for any other
> users...
It's a script? If so, it needs to be "chmod a+x", or else run it as
"/bin/sh /rp-pppoe-2.3/adsl-start".