/usr/local/etc/rc.d getting run twice

Geoff Sweet geoff.sweet at x10.com
Tue Nov 11 11:54:32 PST 2008


Ah, indeed that seems to be the problem.  Thank you, I may never have
spotted that on my own.

-Geoff Sweet


On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 11:21 -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:45:04AM -0800, Geoff Sweet wrote:
> > Greetings, I have new freshly installed servers of FreeBSD 6.3....
> > Any advice?
> 
> Check the value of local_startup in /etc/{defaults/,}rc.conf.
> 
> In 6.3, I believe the default was
> 
> 	/usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d
> 
> but you may find that /usr/X11R6 has become a symlink to /usr/local
> (after upgrading X11).
> 
> If it is, you can avoid the problem by placing
> 
> local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d"
> 
> in /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> Peace,
> david



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