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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 09:49:56 +0200
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina)
Cc: max@wide.ad.jp (Masafumi NAKANE/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?=),
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc
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As Paul Traina wrote:

>   What if rc.local exists but doesn't have execution bit set?

Nothing:

$ cat > foo.sh
echo "hi, i'm foo"
$ ls -l foo.sh
-rw-r--r--  1 j  other  19 Jun 25 09:48 foo.sh
$ . foo.sh
hi, i'm foo

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)