Re: [gentoo-user] local.start and sending an email

2005-11-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 19:16:16 -0500, John J. Foster wrote: Well damn. Removing /etc/init.d/splash from the boot runlevel did in fact cause /etc/init.d/local to run as the last initscript, just like it's supposed to. But it didn't solve the problem of mutt segfaulting when called here. I took

Re: [gentoo-user] local.start and sending an email

2005-11-05 Thread John J. Foster
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:52:20PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: If the same command works in a terminal, it could be a difference in the environment. The first thing I would try is running source /etc/profile right before the mutt call. No go. Just for review, here's a few lines from

Re: [gentoo-user] local.start and sending an email

2005-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:48:43 -0500, John J. Foster wrote: I tried changing this to /usr/bin/date | /usr/bin/mutt -s 'System restarted' [EMAIL PROTECTED] and get the same segmentation fault. Isn't mutt overkill for this? Do you really need a full MUA on a server. I use mail for this sort

Re: [gentoo-user] local.start and sending an email

2005-11-04 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:14:59AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:48:43 -0500, John J. Foster wrote: I tried changing this to /usr/bin/date | /usr/bin/mutt -s 'System restarted' [EMAIL PROTECTED] and get the same segmentation fault. Isn't mutt overkill for

Re: [gentoo-user] local.start and sending an email

2005-11-04 Thread Peper
I did note something I consider quite odd, though. While rebooting, local.start runs right _before_ inittab starts to bring the system to runlevel 3. A couple thing here. rc-status shows /etc/init.d/local as part of the _default_ runlevel. /etc/init.d/local stop - warns about shutting a

Re: [gentoo-user] local.start and sending an email

2005-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 08:16:07 -0500, John J. Foster wrote: I did note something I consider quite odd, though. While rebooting, local.start runs right _before_ inittab starts to bring the system to runlevel 3. That's odd, it definitely runs last here, as it appears is should. Have you trued

Re: [gentoo-user] local.start and sending an email

2005-11-04 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:47:55PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 08:16:07 -0500, John J. Foster wrote: I did note something I consider quite odd, though. While rebooting, local.start runs right _before_ inittab starts to bring the system to runlevel 3. That's odd, it

Re: [gentoo-user] local.start and sending an email

2005-11-04 Thread Peper
rc-update del boot. Of course i meant rc-update del local boot. -- Best Regards, Peper -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] local.start and sending an email

2005-11-04 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:16:07AM -0500, John J. Foster wrote: I did note something I consider quite odd, though. While rebooting, local.start runs right _before_ inittab starts to bring the system to runlevel 3. A couple thing here. rc-status shows /etc/init.d/local as part of the

Re: [gentoo-user] local.start and sending an email

2005-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:05:09 -0500, John J. Foster wrote: Have you trued using mail instead of mutt? It should give a clue as to where the problem lies. May I ask why trying mail, which I will this weekend, would at all explain why local is starting in the wrong runlevel? It wouldn't,

Re: [gentoo-user] local.start and sending an email

2005-11-04 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:14:28AM -0500, John J. Foster wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:16:07AM -0500, John J. Foster wrote: I did note something I consider quite odd, though. While rebooting, local.start runs right _before_ inittab starts to bring the system to runlevel 3. A

Re: [gentoo-user] local.start and sending an email

2005-11-03 Thread Billy Holmes
John J. Foster wrote: date|mutt -s 'System restarted' [EMAIL PROTECTED] try putting in the full path to the commands? the environment that local.start is in is not the same as your shell. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] local.start and sending an email

2005-11-03 Thread Peper
try putting in the full path to the commands? the environment that local.start is in is not the same as your shell. Don't think so. It won't be a segfault then... My only idea is to add echo local.start to the script and check when it is executed. -- Best Regards, Peper --