devd vs cleanvar ordering

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

Hello,

I'm running 6.2-PRE and have bsnmpd and devd enabled. bsnmpd starting
issueing errors upon boot, the devd.pipe in /var/run was not existant.
Indeed, my system somehow ran cleanvar *after* devd.

This was the output after setting rc_debug=YES and putting a 'ls
/var/run/devd.pipe' at the top of /etc/rc.subr


/etc/rc: DEBUG: The following interfaces were not configured:  fwip0 ipw0
ls: 
/var/run/devd.pipe: No such file or directory

/etc/rc.d/ipfilter: DEBUG: checkyesno: ipfilter_enable is set to NO.
ls: 
/var/run/devd.pipe: No such file or directory

/etc/rc: DEBUG: checkyesno: devd_enable is set to YES.
Starting devd.
/etc/rc: DEBUG: run_rc_command: _doit: /sbin/devd  
/etc/rc: DEBUG: checkyesno: devd_enable is set to YES.
/var/run/devd.pipe
/etc/rc: DEBUG: checkyesno: ipsec_enable is set to NO.
/var/run/devd.pipe
/etc/rc: DEBUG: checkyesno: cleanvar_enable is set to YES.
/etc/rc: DEBUG: run_rc_command: evaluating cleanvar_prestart().
/etc/rc: DEBUG: run_rc_command: evaluating cleanvar_start().
ls: 
/var/run/devd.pipe: No such file or directory

/etc/rc: DEBUG: checkyesno: isdn_enable is set to NO.
ls: 
/var/run/devd.pipe: No such file or directory

I solved this by putting 'REQUIRE: cleanvar' into the devd script.
Strange thing is, that other 6.2 systems I administer do NOT have that
problem.

Perhaps there is an ordering race in rcorder?

Ulrich Spoerlein

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