Kevin wrote:
--- Claude Jones <claude_jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Kevin wrote:
| --- Claude Jones <claude_jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
|| I've pulled a real bad move. I stuck a three line
|| script into
|| rc.local It just changes directories and calls up
a python
|| based server app for spam filtering. My screen
just hangs when
|| I get to that part of the boot process. Shelling
out just
|| leads to blank
|| screen. I need some way of getting access to
|| rc.local and editing
|| out those commands. Can someone help - I'm lucky
in that it's
|| booting enough to provide DHCP and routing
services so I can
|| send this email from my laptop.
|
| Can you <CTRL><ALT><F1> to a terminal and login?
|
No - it hangs just before it gets to the login
screen. CTL-ALT-F1
does nothing. I had an older Knoppix CD here, but it
can't read
the drive with /etc on it... I also have an older
ver Linux rescue
floppy, but it won't boot...
At the very first part of the boot sequence, type ¨
single¨ ie at the boot loader where it says Fedora
Core2, hit the a key and type in <space> single then
press enter. This will boot into single mode and you
can edit the file from there
Typing I at the beginning of the boot sequence did it. I'd watched that
sequence probably hundreds of times, but I'd never noticed/understood
what 'start service local' meant till just now. That's the command that
obviously executes the rc.local script. I'm back in, now. Thank you
everyone for your quick, helpful advice.
--
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA
