Solved (pilot error) Re: (some?) startup scripts being run twice..?

[Jan Grant]

On Tue, 2 May 2006, Jan Grant wrote:

> I'm running a stock freebsd-stable as a workstation. I'm seeing 
> something unusual: it looks like some startup scripts are being run 
> twice when the machine boots.
> 
> Originally I caught this because an old-fashioned /usr/local/etc/rc.d 
> script was being called twice. However, on looking closer it seems that 
> I'm getting ntpd launched twice as well. There may be others that bomb 
> out - but has anyone got any suggestions as to what might be causing 
> this?
> 
> rc.conf is boring (just turns on a bunch of the usual suspects you'd see 
> on a workstation); I can't see in /etc/rc why this might be occurring.

Tracked this down: fwiw, from /etc/rc.conf -

local_startup="/etc/rc.d /usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d"

The /usr/local/etc/rc.d old-fashioned startup script was being called 
twice due to the double invocation of /etc/rc.d/localpkg.


Cheers,
jan



-- 
jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/
Tel +44 (0)117 3317661   http://ioctl.org/jan/
"Roger Penrose can never be convinced that this sentence is true."
(If he doesn't get the joke, you can at least prove that he owes you money.)