Ralph,
Thanks for all the information. I'll probably not get round to looking at it
for a few days because I shortly have to set off for the Midlands to collect
my mother, who is staying with us for the week. I'll give it a whirl to see
what's, what. Just at the moment though, I only have time to dash this off
and no time to fire up the Pis.
On Saturday, 16 September 2017 20:21:17 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> If you're using `echo foo' then that goes to standard out, stdout. But
> that might be being discarded. You could try standard error, stderr,
> instead with `echo foo >&2'. But that might be being discarded too.
> Use
One thing that struck me though. I understand what you are saying here but
the messages are being echoed when I simply type 'sudo /etc/rc.local' in a
shell but not when it is executed at boot up. Also, I know the command is
being executed correctly at boot up, because, although I don't get the
message, I do get the O/P of rdate, which is something along the lines of
'clock adjusted by xyz seconds'. Also the clock is right :-)
Is there some mechanism that directs the O/P of echo to stdout once the system
has booted but to somewhere else while it is being booted?
Finally, I also realised last night that all the examples of echo that I had
seen were written as echo foo, whereas I have written echo "foo". Could this
have any bearing?
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