On Tue, 02 Mar 1999, you wrote:
> Michael Doyle wrote:
> > Now when booting under v5.3 I get the same but the first instance has an error
> > message, stating that the file or directory was not found, or some thing close
> > to this, then the second instance, all clear and the system boots.
> >
> > This does not appear to be any great problem, but I would like a clean boot,
> > and are the 2 instances needed???
> >
>
> Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and remove the final two lines that read:
>
> # Feed entropy into the entropy pool
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/random start
>
> They're issued earlier in the script, causing the double messages.
>
> If any Mandrake development people are reading, there's also a small
> buglet that causes a message "/etc/sysconfig/i18n not found" to be
> issued during bootup. From looking at the rc.sysinit script, it looks
> like the line that reads:
>
> . /etc/sysconfig/i18n
>
> should be wrapped in an if statement, or have that sourcing depend upon
> having foreign language support installed (I assume that's what would
> install the i18n file).
>
G'day Steve
Thanks for the reply and the fix to the mutiple instances. Made me feel better
was starting to think it was me :-)))
Michael Doyle
Adelaide, South Australia
ICQ #2635762
http://landofoz.apana.org.au
