Hi,

I am tryin to install custom software during the linux reboot.

So,I have changed rc.local file, but unfortunately I have added a code that

is going on a infinite loop. And now I am in a pick.

Is there anyway that I can avoid rc.local file while reboot.


Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks,
Sunny

Depends which distro you're on. If you're on something which uses runlevels, you can bring the system to a runlevel where rc.local is not executed (assuming it's not set to run in all available runlevels). See the telinit and inittab manual pages for an explanation. On the system where I write this (Ubuntu) runlevels are not really used, but it looks like simply booting into single user would avoid running rc.local; this also appears to hold on a Debian system I'm looking at (which in turn seems to have copied this stuff from Mandrake, basically) and there's even a comment in /etc/rc.local which says it's executed in multiuser run levels ("only", you are tempted to add).