Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:01:03 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.d scripts not being run at shutdown. Message-ID: <20080212020103.488bd34a@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080211215528.7946615b@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <20080210040215.769f478e@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20080211180647.11a1f468@gumby.homeunix.com.> <44myq7uwqu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20080211215528.7946615b@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:55:28 +0000 RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:19:21 -0500 > Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > > > RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> writes: > > > > I could imagine screwing-up the operation of rc.shutdown with a > > > syntax error, but I don't see how I could stop it being run at > > > all. As I understand it rc.shutdown is run from init if the file > > > exists. init itself doesn't seem to have been modified recently, > > > so I'm out of ideas. > > > > rc.subr and rc.conf will be sourced first, so errors in those could > > cause problems. > > That's a good point, but I just tried it with an rc.shutdown script > that contains only the touch statement, and the file wasn't touched > (and I have tried running the touch manually). > > I should also add that this problem has survived a world+kernel > rebuild to 7.0-RC2, which included the use of mergemaster. All the > scripts under /etc should be the ones in the repository. And now I come to think about it, I was tinkering with a random number script at the exact time the entropy file was written-out, and I'm pretty certain I wrote it myself. That means I have no evidence that rc.shutdown has worked at all since I installed FreeBSD 7 in early December.
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