Stefan Dozier wrote:
>
> Through a careless mistake, I restored an old rc.local from a Redhat v5.1
> archive over my default Mandrake 5.3 installed /etc/rc.d/rc.local file.
> Although I had did some editing to the Mnadrake default rc.local file and
> can recover and re-edit that portion, I was wondering if anyone here whew
> if it's possible to retrieve the default rc.local file from the Mandrake
> CD without doing a complete re-install of the Operating System.
Sure, use the command:
rpm -qf /etc/rc.d/rc.local
to find out which package owns that file, then reinstall that package
with this command:
rpm -Uvh --force <package>
and you're all set to make your local changes.
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Steve Philp
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