Hi
That's quite natural because tail -f never ends until you kill it. And unless it
ends, execution of rc.local won't finish. Consequently login prompt will not
appear.
If you press ^C after the message is displayed, it will proceed to login.
You better put tail /var/log/messages>/root/latest.messages' and read it at your
leisure.
Bye
Shridhar
ajay chaudhari wrote:
> Hi all,
> I want to tail the message file as soon as the
> system boots. I added the line
> "tail -f /var/log/message" in /etc/rc.d/rc.local after
> booting the message file does get displaied on the
> screen but I do not get the login prompt on any of the
> terminals ie Alt+f1 or Alt+f2 or Alt+f3 so on.
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