Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:52:55 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.d scripts not being run at shutdown. Message-ID: <44abm6xm48.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20080212020103.488bd34a@gumby.homeunix.com.> (RW's message of "Tue\, 12 Feb 2008 02\:01\:03 %2B0000") References: <20080210040215.769f478e@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20080211180647.11a1f468@gumby.homeunix.com.> <44myq7uwqu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20080211215528.7946615b@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20080212020103.488bd34a@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> writes: > 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. So rcorder isn't being run on rc.d either? Weird; I can't see what could cause that.
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