On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:55:28 +0000 RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:19:21 -0500 > Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
