Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:26:11 -0500 From: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> To: jqdkf@army.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: services under /usr/local/etc/rc.d run twice on boot Message-ID: <3FE65643.4050901@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <20031221113542.GA626@cactus.homeunix.org> References: <20031221084531.GB31516@cactus.homeunix.org> <20031221105925.GA1713@utgard.lodz.mm.pl> <20031221113542.GA626@cactus.homeunix.org>
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jqdkf@army.com wrote: >>Copy-paste from /usr/srt/UPDATING: >>20030829: >> The following rc.d scripts have been removed and should be >> deleted from your installation: atm2.sh atm3.sh devdb >> localdaemons network1 network2 network3. Depending on when >> you last updated world and used mergemaster(8) you may or >> may not have problems during the rc boot sequence. The simplest >> solution is an 'rm -rf /etc/rc.d/*' and then 'mergemaster -i'. >> The atm2.sh atm3.sh and devdb scripts were removed some time >> ago, so depending on when you installed -CURRENT these scripts >> may or may not exist on your system. >>-- >> Huginn > > > Thanks a lot. It does solve the problem. But I wonder why freebsd > doesn't remove those obsolete files automatically after each upgrade. > It would make the system cleaner and avoid such difficult to track > problems. Then someone would scream bloody murder the first time mergemaster screwed up a system because it removed a file before the system was ready for it. I think mergemaster does about the right amount of assistance during a build work cycle. Trying to make it "smarter" would result in an endless series of special cases that would be a bitch to maintain. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com
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