From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 12 02:33:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D5B016A418 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:33:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+TB=896b83ba@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from turtle-out.mxes.net (turtle-out.mxes.net [216.86.168.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5412013C45A for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:33:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+TB=896b83ba@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178]) by turtle-in.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0839163F68 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:01:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C6CE23E4C6 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:01:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:01:03 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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.> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.7; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: rc.d scripts not being run at shutdown. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:33:43 -0000 On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:55:28 +0000 RW wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:19:21 -0500 > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > RW 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.