I am not sure, but I think that the rc scripts are run from a shell.
exiting the shell would cause the system to lock up at that point,
especially if daemons are not yet started which would let you log on.
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, William Ahern wrote:
> Nevermind. I figured the problem out. I had an 'exit' statement in my
> rc.firewall, which gets run right after the swapon -a. Anybody know why this
> causes the boot sequence to pause? How is the script run? Running rc.firewall
> manually doesn't cause it to pause...
>
> thanx,
>
> Bill
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