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