Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 16:26:39 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Solved (pilot error) Re: (some?) startup scripts being run twice..? Message-ID: <20060502162237.T1705@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060502115736.P1705@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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On Tue, 2 May 2006, Jan Grant wrote: > I'm running a stock freebsd-stable as a workstation. I'm seeing > something unusual: it looks like some startup scripts are being run > twice when the machine boots. > > Originally I caught this because an old-fashioned /usr/local/etc/rc.d > script was being called twice. However, on looking closer it seems that > I'm getting ntpd launched twice as well. There may be others that bomb > out - but has anyone got any suggestions as to what might be causing > this? > > rc.conf is boring (just turns on a bunch of the usual suspects you'd see > on a workstation); I can't see in /etc/rc why this might be occurring. Tracked this down: fwiw, from /etc/rc.conf - local_startup="/etc/rc.d /usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d" The /usr/local/etc/rc.d old-fashioned startup script was being called twice due to the double invocation of /etc/rc.d/localpkg. Cheers, jan -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ "Roger Penrose can never be convinced that this sentence is true." (If he doesn't get the joke, you can at least prove that he owes you money.)home | help
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