Joe Duncan wrote:
>
> the lines are:
>
> alias ls='ls --color=auto'
> alias dir='ls'
You won't see these anywhere except in your rc.local, since you are running in a
separate shell that terminates. Remember, these are not in your login shell.
Try put echo in there, so you can see on the screen what's going on.
> ipfwadm <yadda yadda i forget exaclty>
> ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.0.0/24 -S 0.0.0.0/0
Put echo in front of these lines, so you can see on the screen if they would be
executed.
> So no, none of them have qualified paths and none of them are executed.
> (I reboot the machine, no colours, no IP masq...)
>
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> Original Text
> From: "Bud Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 27/08/98 2:20 pm:
> "Joe Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Ok, here's a weird little problem for you. Although I did get IP
> > masquerading working last night, none of the lines I've added to the
> > rc.local file seem to be executed. I addes two line that make 'ls'
> display
> > in colour and make 'dir' an alias for 'ls'. After that there are two
> > 'ipfwadm' that enable the IP masq... Neither one seems to work. When I
> > reboot the computer I must type in these lines manually to get them to
> > work. Any ideas why? Is there another file which specifies which scripts
> > are run? Is there another initialization file that I should be using
> > instead of '/etc/rc.d/rc.local'?
>
> I'm not exactly clear about your problem. Do the first two entries
> pertaining to ls work but not the ipfwadm entries? In that case I would
> suspect a path or permission problem. Do the ipfwadm entries have a full
> path to the executable?
>
> If nothing you added works then probably rc.local isn't being called. I
> don't remember exactly, but I think it is called by rc.M. The relevant
> line may be commented out. You could find where is it called pretty quick
> with something like
>
> $grep rc.local /etc/rc.d/rc.*
>
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