Bug 6923

Summary:	Tries to run scripts it shouldn't
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Riley H Williams <rhw>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	rvokal
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Description Riley H Williams 1999-11-11 13:24:59 UTC

There are TWO bugs in the main init script /etc/rc.d/rc
present on RedHat 5.1, 6.0 and 6.1 versions of this script,
as follows:

 1. The current script is set up to ignore any of the
    *.rpmsave and *.rpmorig scripts that RPM throws up,
    but it fails to ignore the *.rpmnew scripts that
    RPM occasionally throws up. I recently got hit by
    this bug.

 2. It also sometimes tries to execute scripts that do
    not have execute listed in their mode. This results
    in unnecessary error messages being displayed.

I have put the required patch online at the URL above (which
is NOT linked into the tree there), and would ask that this
be applied.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-11-11 16:09:59 UTC

The rpmnew thing is fixed in the initscripts that ship with 6.1.
Will look at testing -x instead of -f.

Comment 2 Riley H Williams 1999-11-24 13:21:59 UTC

Has any decision been reached on "testing -x" ???

I will add that I use -x here, and this allows me to disable subsystems by doing
`chmod a-x /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd` for example, and not see unwanted error
messages appear on the screen during system boot.