What is difference between /etc/rc called programs and ones called after login prompt shows up

Aryeh Friedman aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
Sun Aug 24 02:02:20 UTC 2008


On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 7:39 PM, RW <fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:13:49 +0100
> RW <fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:38:13 -0400
>> "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > c) See a additionally to prove all the above here is my /etc/rc (the
>> > last 2 lines where added just to prove the point):
>> >
>> > #!/bin/sh
>> >
>> > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
>> >
>> > swapon -a
>> > fsck -p
>> > ...
>> > fuse: failed to exec mount program: No such file or directory
>> >
>> > Thus it is clear that the *ONLY* difference between the /etc/rc
>> > calls and the post getty calls is when they are made.
>>
>> There's another difference: your /etc/rc script doesn't export PATH.
>
> That does seem to be the answer.
>
> I was curious as to why it only fails on ntfs, so I had a look
> at the source. It seems that mount and fsck find mount_* and fsck_*
> through a hard-coded path of "/rescue:/sbin:/usr/sbin", but
> mount_ntfs-3g then additionally has to find mount_fusefs through the
> environment path.
>
> Perhaps sysutils/fusefs-libs should be patched to make the whole thing
> more self-consistent.
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Thanks that did it... but you're incorrect in saying it is only ntfs
it is all fuse based fs's I had a the same error when doing a fuse-ssh
mount to my machine at work


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