rc.local not seen?

[Bob Hartung <rwhartung home com>]

Hi,
  New install of RH6.2 on clean HD masquerade server.  Part of the set
up is a line in rc.local that starts up the firewall [rc.firewall  which
has been made executable with a chmod 700 ].

  The line in rc.local is simply

	/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall

  There are entries in the rc.firewall script that should be echo'd to
the monitor (and therefore presumabley logged?)  Review of
/var/log/messages and dmesg shows no evidence.  "cat
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" is not being reset to "1" [the
rc.firewall has a line echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward.  If the
latter is run manually all is well and masquerading works from anywhere
on the inside network.

  Where have I gone wrong.  How do I make sure that rc.local is begin
read and executed?

TIA


 
Bob Hartung
www.radiologygrouppc.com