>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: >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: _______________________________________________ [hidden email] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[hidden email]" |
On Sunday 02 May 2010 5:24:14 pm Paweł Kaczor wrote:
> > >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 > >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". This isn't likely to be fixed in 6.x as that branch is EOL at this point. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [hidden email] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[hidden email]" |
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From: John Baldwin <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Cc: "Paweł Kaczor" <[hidden email]>, [hidden email] Subject: Re: alpha/146255: periodic emits repeated messages because of /usr/X11R6 link to /usr/local Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 10:03:18 -0400 On Sunday 02 May 2010 5:24:14 pm Paweł Kaczor wrote: > > >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". This isn't likely to be fixed in 6.x as that branch is EOL at this point. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [hidden email] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[hidden email]" |
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