alpha/146255: periodic emits repeated messages because of /usr/X11R6 link to /usr/local

[Paweł Kaczor]

>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
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun May 02 21:30:04 UTC 2010
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>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 at 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".

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