2 bugs: ls -lt, network.local

[Dr. Michael M. Cohen]

ls -lt seems to be confused about what's latest!

<<d 12>>ls -lt
total 66
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys          286 Apr 12  1991 lpd*
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys          433 Feb 21  1991 perf*
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys          560 Feb 21  1991 acct*
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys          490 Feb 21  1991 configmsg*
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys         1229 Feb 21  1991 cron*
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys          398 Feb 21  1991 lp*
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys         2539 Feb 21  1991 mail*
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys        18047 Feb 21  1991 network*
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys         1125 Feb 21  1991 RMTMPFILES*
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys          166 Feb 21  1991 savecore*
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys          684 Feb 21  1991 autoconfig*
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys          819 Feb 21  1991 sysetup*
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys          424 Feb 21  1991 uucp*
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys         1903 Feb 21  1991 README*
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys          279 Feb 21  1991 MOUNTFSYS*
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys           45 Jun  6 22:11 network.local.x*
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys           87 Jun  6 22:11 network.local*

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2nd bug is that network.local does not work correctly on boot
I get message:/usr/etc/route add default 128.114.133.251 1: file exists
(something pretty close to that anyhow), and remote cites are not known.
I can manually say "network.local" which will properly add the route.
network.local contains:
if test $1 = stop ; then
        exit;
fi
/usr/etc/route add default 128.114.133.251 1
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the proper links are put in rc0.d and rc2.d as outlined
in /etc/init.d/network

Can anyone explain why this fails?

TIA, MM Cohen