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Subject: Re: Problems while starting rc.d local files
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Vittorio De Martino <vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it> writes:

> Towards the end of the boot process while starting the processes 
> under /usr/local/etc/rc.d (I think)  freebsd 5.4 warns about something wrong 
> that I cannot find in the log files dmesg.boot, dmesg, messages.
> The warning (nothing fatal happens!) I eye is as follows:
> ....................
> Pre-seeding PRNG: kickstart
> Loading configuration files
> This: not found
> ^^^^
> 
> and the sentence " This: not found" pops up till the end of the boot.
> 
> Where can I find a glue on what's happening, what's going wrong?

One of the startup scripts is trying to execute a line that starts
with the word "This".  Does that word appear in your rc.conf file?
Have you edited any of the files in /etc/rc.d to mistakenly contain
that, perhaps by removing the comment character ("#") from the start
of a line?