Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 21:24:14 GMT From: "Paweł Kaczor" <paczor@fubar.pl> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: alpha/146255: periodic emits repeated messages because of /usr/X11R6 link to /usr/local Message-ID: <201005022124.o42LOELg058186@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201005022130.o42LU4m9096055@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 146255 >Category: alpha >Synopsis: periodic emits repeated messages because of /usr/X11R6 link to /usr/local >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-alpha >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun May 02 21:30:04 UTC 2010 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Paweł Kaczor >Release: 6.3-RELEASE >Organization: IT Gens Sp. z o.o. >Environment: FreeBSD gustlik.fubar.pl 6.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Feb 15 13:29:20 CET 2008 root@berta.swired2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL alpha >Description: There's a line in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf: local_periodic="/usr/local/etc/periodic /usr/X11R6/etc/periodic" with additional dirs that periodic should look in for scripts. But /usr/X11R6 is soft link to /usr/local, so both paths listed above are same, so periodic runs the very same scripts twice. I noticed it on my Alpha machine on FreeBSD 6.3, don't know if those paths are from the setup time or some of the packages installed them. >How-To-Repeat: Put some simple script with this line inside: echo "This message is repeated!" in /usr/local/etc/periodic/security and run: periodic security You should see the message twice. >Fix: Replace line: local_periodic="/usr/local/etc/periodic /usr/X11R6/etc/periodic" with: local_periodic="/usr/local/etc/periodic" in "/etc/defaults/periodic.conf". >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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