In search of boot script names.

In search of boot script names.

[Dave Mielke]

The BRLTTY manual is currently being brought up-to-date. The latest version can
be read on-line at:

    http://dave.mielke.cc/brltty/doc/Manual-HTML/Manual.html

One of its sections, 2.5 (Starting BRLTTY), deals with having BRLTTY started as
part of the boot sequence. To make this section complete, it'd help to know the
equivalents to the REdHat scripts /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and /etc/rc.d/rc.local
on as many distributions as possible. Would all those with this kind of
knowledge please let me know. The manual will be kept up-to-date as responses
come in so you can always check it out to see what information it's still
missing. We'd also be interested in any boot problems related to BRLTTY which
aren't described yet. Thanks.

-- 
Dave Mielke           | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the
Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario   | Word of God. Please contact me
EMail: dave@mielke.cc | Canada  K2A 1H7   | if you're concerned about Hell.

Re: In search of boot script names.

[John J. Boyer]

Dave,
This doesn't have to do with names, but does have to do with boot scripts.
I've been having trouble with BRLTTY which we all thought was due to
another process trying to use the same serial port. Noww I find that if I
do
killall brltty
brltty
(as root, of course) the problems disappear. It's been working like a
charm ever since. So now I think the problems were caused by the place in
the botup sequence at which it was called. I am using Redhat 7.1. BRLTTY
is called in /etc/rc/rc.sysinit. Below is the script. Any suggestions
about where to put the call in the boot sequence would be appreciated.
John
#!/bin/bash
#
# /etc/rc.sysinit - run once at boot time
#
# Taken in part from Miquel van Smoorenburg's bcheckrc.
#

# run braille tty driver.
[ -x /sbin/brltty ] && /sbin/brltty

# Rerun ourselves through initlog
if [ -z "$IN_INITLOG" ]; then
 [ -f /sbin/initlog ] && exec /sbin/initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -r /etc/rc.sysinit
fi

# If we're using devfs, start devfsd now - we need the old device names
[ -e /dev/.devfsd -a -x /sbin/devfsd ] && /sbin/devfsd /dev

# Set the path
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
export PATH

HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`

# Read in config data.
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
    . /etc/sysconfig/network
else
    NETWORKING=no
fi

if [ -z "$HOSTNAME" -o "$HOSTNAME" = "(none)" ]; then
    HOSTNAME=localhost
fi

# Source functions
. /etc/init.d/functions

# Print a banner. ;)
echo -en $"\t\t\tWelcome to "
[ "$BOOTUP" != "serial" ] && echo -en $"\\033[1;31m"
echo -en $"Red Hat"
[ "$BOOTUP" != "serial" ] && echo -en $"\\033[0;39m"
echo $" Linux"
if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then
 echo -en $"\t\tPress 'I' to enter interactive startup."
 echo
 sleep 1
fi

# Fix console loglevel
/bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL

# Mount /proc (done here so volume labels can work with fsck)

action $"Mounting proc filesystem: " mount -n -t proc /proc /proc

# Configure kernel parameters

action $"Configuring kernel parameters: " sysctl -e -p /etc/sysctl.conf

# Set the system clock.
ARC=0
SRM=0
UTC=0

if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/clock ]; then
   . /etc/sysconfig/clock

   # convert old style clock config to new values
   if [ "${CLOCKMODE}" = "GMT" ]; then
      UTC=true
   elif [ "${CLOCKMODE}" = "ARC" ]; then
      ARC=true
   fi
fi

CLOCKDEF=""
CLOCKFLAGS="--hctosys"

case "$UTC" in
   yes|true)
    CLOCKFLAGS="$CLOCKFLAGS -u";
    CLOCKDEF="$CLOCKDEF (utc)";
   ;;
   no|false)
    CLOCKFLAGS="$CLOCKFLAGS --localtime";
    CLOCKDEF="$CLOCKDEF (localtime)";
   ;;
esac

case "$ARC" in
     yes|true)
     	CLOCKFLAGS="$CLOCKFLAGS -A";
     	CLOCKDEF="$CLOCKDEF (arc)";
     ;;
esac
case "$SRM" in
     yes|true)
	CLOCKFLAGS="$CLOCKFLAGS -S";
	CLOCKDEF="$CLOCKDEF (srm)";
     ;;
esac

/sbin/hwclock $CLOCKFLAGS

action $"Setting clock $CLOCKDEF: `date`" date

if [ "`/sbin/consoletype`" == "vt" ]; then
 # Load keymap
 if [ -x /bin/loadkeys ]; then
 KEYTABLE=
 KEYMAP=
 if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/console/default.kmap ]; then
  KEYMAP=/etc/sysconfig/console/default.kmap
 else
  if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/keyboard ]; then
    . /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
  fi
  if [ -n "$KEYTABLE" -a -d "/usr/lib/kbd/keymaps" -o -d "/lib/kbd/keymaps" ]; then
     KEYMAP=$KEYTABLE
  fi
 fi
 if [ -n "$KEYMAP" ]; then
  # Since this takes in/output from stdin/out, we can't use initlog
  if [ -n "$KEYTABLE" ]; then
    echo -n $"Loading default keymap ($KEYTABLE): "
  else
    echo -n $"Loading default keymap: "
  fi
  loadkeys $KEYMAP < /dev/tty0 > /dev/tty0 2>/dev/null && \
     success $"Loading default keymap" || failure $"Loading default keymap"
  echo
 fi
 fi

 # Load system font
 if [ -x /sbin/setsysfont ]; then
    [ -f /etc/sysconfig/i18n ] && . /etc/sysconfig/i18n
    if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/console/$SYSFONT.psf.gz -o \
         -f /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/$SYSFONT.psf.gz -o \
         -f /etc/sysconfig/console/$SYSFONT.gz -o \
         -f /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/$SYSFONT.gz -o \
	 -f /lib/kbd/consolefonts/$SYSFONT.gz -o \
	 -f /lib/kbd/consolefonts/$SYSFONT.psf.gz ]; then
       action $"Setting default font ($SYSFONT): " /sbin/setsysfont
    fi
 fi
fi

# Start up swapping.
action $"Activating swap partitions: " swapon -a -e

# Set the hostname.
action $"Setting hostname ${HOSTNAME}: " hostname ${HOSTNAME}

# Initialize USB controller and HID devices
usb=0
if ! grep -iq "nousb" /proc/cmdline 2>/dev/null && ! grep -q "usb" /proc/devices 2>/dev/null ; then
    aliases=`/sbin/modprobe -c | egrep -s "^alias[[:space:]]+usb-controller" | awk '{ print $3 }'`
    if [ -n "$aliases" -a "$aliases" != "off" ] ; then
      modprobe usbcore
      action $"Mounting USB filesystem: "  mount -t usbdevfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb
      for alias in $aliases ; do
      	action $"Initializing USB controller ($alias): " modprobe $alias
      done
      [ $? -eq 0 -a -n "$aliases" ] && usb=1
    fi
fi

if ! grep -iq "nousb" /proc/cmdline 2>/dev/null && grep -q "usb" /proc/devices 2>/dev/null ; then
  usb=1
fi

needusbstorage=
if [ $usb = "1" ]; then
    sleep 5
    mouseoutput=`cat /proc/bus/usb/devices 2>/dev/null|grep -E "^I.*Cls=03.*Prot=02"`
    kbdoutput=`cat /proc/bus/usb/devices 2>/dev/null|grep -E "^I.*Cls=03.*Prot=01"`
    needusbstorage=`cat /proc/bus/usb/devices 2>/dev/null|grep -e "^I.*Cls=08"`
    if [ -n "$kbdoutput" ] || [ -n "$mouseoutput" ]; then
	action $"Initializing USB HID interface: " modprobe hid 2> /dev/null
    fi
    if [ -n "$kbdoutput" ]; then
	action $"Initializing USB keyboard: " modprobe keybdev
    fi
    if [ -n "$mouseoutput" ]; then
	action $"Initializing USB mouse: " modprobe mousedev
    fi
fi

if [ -f /fastboot ] || grep -iq "fastboot" /proc/cmdline 2>/dev/null ; then
	fastboot=yes
    else
        fastboot=
fi

if [ -f /fsckoptions ]; then
	fsckoptions=`cat /fsckoptions`
    else
	fsckoptions=
fi

if [ -f /forcefsck ]; then
	fsckoptions="-f $fsckoptions"
fi

if [ "$BOOTUP" != "serial" ]; then
	fsckoptions="-C $fsckoptions"
else
	fsckoptions="-V $fsckoptions"
fi


_RUN_QUOTACHECK=0
ROOTFSTYPE=`grep " / " /proc/mounts | awk '{ print $3 }'`
if [ -z "$fastboot" -a "$ROOTFSTYPE" != "nfs" ]; then

        STRING=$"Checking root filesystem"
	echo $STRING
	initlog -c "fsck -T -a $fsckoptions /"
	rc=$?

	if [ "$rc" = "0" ]; then
		success "$STRING"
		echo
	elif [ "$rc" = "1" ]; then
	        passed $"$STRING"
		echo
        fi

        # A return of 2 or higher means there were serious problems.
	if [ $rc -gt 1 ]; then
		failure "$STRING"
		echo
		echo
		echo $"*** An error occurred during the file system check."
		echo $"*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot"
		echo $"*** when you leave the shell."

		PS1=$"(Repair filesystem) \# # "; export PS1
		sulogin

		echo $"Unmounting file systems"
		umount -a
		mount -n -o remount,ro /
		echo $"Automatic reboot in progress."
		reboot -f
	elif [ "$rc" = "1" ]; then
		_RUN_QUOTACHECK=1
	fi
fi

# check for arguments

if grep -iq nopnp /proc/cmdline >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
    PNP=
else
    PNP=yes
fi

# set up pnp
if [ -x /sbin/isapnp -a -f /etc/isapnp.conf -a ! -f /proc/isapnp ]; then
    if [ -n "$PNP" ]; then
	action $"Setting up ISA PNP devices: " /sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
    else
	action $"Skipping ISA PNP configuration at users request: " /bin/true
    fi
fi

# Remount the root filesystem read-write.
state=`awk '/(^\/dev\/root| \/ )/ { print $4 }' /proc/mounts`
[ "$state" != "rw" ] && \
  action $"Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: " mount -n -o remount,rw /

# LVM initialization
if [ -e /proc/lvm -a -x /sbin/vgchange -a -f /etc/lvmtab ]; then
        action $"Setting up LVM:" /sbin/vgscan && /sbin/vgchange -a y
fi

# Clear mtab
>/etc/mtab

# Remove stale backups
rm -f /etc/mtab~ /etc/mtab~~

# Enter root, /proc and (potentially) /proc/bus/usb and devfs into mtab.
mount -f /
mount -f /proc
[ -f /proc/bus/usb/devices ] && mount -f -t usbdevfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb
[ -e /dev/.devfsd ] && mount -f -t devfs devfs /dev

# Turn on harddisk optimization
# There is only one file /etc/sysconfig/harddisks for all disks
# after installing the hdparm-RPM. If you need different hdparm parameters
# for each of your disks, copy /etc/sysconfig/harddisks to
# /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhda (hdb, hdc...) and modify it.
# each disk which has no special parameters will use the defaults.

disk[0]=s; disk[1]=hda; disk[2]=hdb; disk[3]=hdc;
disk[4]=hdd; disk[5]=hde; disk[6]=hdf; disk[7]=hdg; disk[8]=hdh;


if [ -x /sbin/hdparm ]; then
   for device in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8; do
   unset MULTIPLE_IO USE_DMA EIDE_32BIT LOOKAHEAD EXTRA_PARAMS
        if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/harddisk${disk[$device]} ]; then
                . /etc/sysconfig/harddisk${disk[$device]}
                HDFLAGS[$device]=
                if [ -n "$MULTIPLE_IO" ] && [ "$MULTIPLE_IO" != "0" ]; then
                    HDFLAGS[$device]="-q -m$MULTIPLE_IO"
                fi
                if [ -n "$USE_DMA" ] && [ "$USE_DMA" != "0" ]; then
                    HDFLAGS[$device]="${HDFLAGS[$device]} -q -d$USE_DMA"
                fi
                if [ -n "$EIDE_32BIT" ]; then
                    HDFLAGS[$device]="${HDFLAGS[$device]} -q -c$EIDE_32BIT"
                fi
                if [ -n "$LOOKAHEAD" ]; then
                    HDFLAGS[$device]="${HDFLAGS[$device]} -q -A$LOOKAHEAD"
                fi
                if [ -n "$EXTRA_PARAMS" ]; then
                    HDFLAGS[$device]="${HDFLAGS[$device]} $EXTRA_PARAMS"
                fi
        else
                HDFLAGS[$device]="${HDFLAGS[0]}"
        fi
        if [ -e "/proc/ide/${disk[$device]}/media" ] ; then
             hdmedia=`cat /proc/ide/${disk[$device]}/media`
             if [ "$hdmedia" = "disk" ]; then
                  if [ -n "${HDFLAGS[$device]}" ]; then
                      action $"Setting hard drive parameters for ${disk[$device]}: "  /sbin/hdparm ${HDFLAGS[$device]} /dev/${disk[$device]}
                  fi
             fi
        fi
   done
fi

# Update quotas if fsck was run on /.
if [ X"$_RUN_QUOTACHECK" = X1 -a -x /sbin/quotacheck ]; then
	if [ -x /sbin/convertquota ]; then
	    if [ -f /quota.user ]; then
		/sbin/convertquota -u / && rm -f /quota.user
	    fi
	    if [ -f /quota.group ]; then
		/sbin/convertquota -g / && rm -f /quota.group
	    fi
	fi
	action $"Checking root filesystem quotas: "  /sbin/quotacheck -v /
fi

# The root filesystem is now read-write, so we can now log via syslog() directly..
if [ -n "$IN_INITLOG" ]; then
    IN_INITLOG=
fi

if ! grep -iq nomodules /proc/cmdline >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -f /proc/ksyms ]; then
    USEMODULES=y
else
    USEMODULES=
fi

# Our modutils don't support it anymore, so we might as well remove
# the preferred link.
rm -f /lib/modules/preferred
rm -f /lib/modules/default
if [ -x /sbin/depmod -a -n "$USEMODULES" ]; then
    # If they aren't using a recent sane kernel, make a link for them
    if [ ! -n "`uname -r | grep -- "-"`" ]; then
       ktag="`cat /proc/version`"
       mtag=`grep -l "$ktag" /lib/modules/*/.rhkmvtag 2> /dev/null`
       if [ -n "$mtag" ]; then
          mver=`echo $mtag | sed -e 's,/lib/modules/,,' -e 's,/.rhkmvtag,,' -e 's,[       ].*$,,'`
       fi
       if [ -n "$mver" ]; then
         ln -sf /lib/modules/$mver /lib/modules/default
       fi
    fi
    if [ -L /lib/modules/default ]; then
    	INITLOG_ARGS= action $"Finding module dependencies: " depmod -A default
    else
	INITLOG_ARGS= action $"Finding module dependencies: " depmod -A
    fi
fi

# tweak isapnp settings if needed.
if [ -n "$PNP" -a  -f /proc/isapnp -a -x /sbin/sndconfig ]; then
    /sbin/sndconfig --mungepnp >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

# Load sound modules iff they need persistent DMA buffers
if grep -q "options sound dmabuf=1" /etc/modules.conf 2>/dev/null ; then
  RETURN=0
  alias=`/sbin/modprobe -c | egrep -s "^alias[[:space:]]+sound[[:space:]]+" | awk '{ print $3 }'`
  if [ -n "$alias" -a "$alias" != "off" ] ; then
      action $"Loading sound module ($alias): " modprobe $alias
      RETURN=$?
  fi
  alias=`/sbin/modprobe -c | egrep -s "^alias[[:space:]]+sound-slot-0[[:space:]]+" | awk '{ print $3 }'`
  if [ -n "$alias" -a "$alias" != "off" ] ; then
      action $"Loading sound module ($alias): " modprobe $alias
      RETURN=$?
  fi
  # Load mixer settings
  if grep -q "\(sparcaudio\|sound\)" /proc/devices 2>/dev/null ; then
      if [ $RETURN -eq 0 -a -f /etc/.aumixrc -a -x /bin/aumix-minimal ]; then
	  action $"Loading mixer settings: " /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L
      fi
  fi
fi

if [ -f /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe ]; then
   if [ -n "$USEMODULES" ]; then
       sysctl -w kernel.modprobe="/sbin/modprobe" >/dev/null 2>&1
       sysctl -w kernel.hotplug="/sbin/hotplug" >/dev/null 2>&1
   else
       # We used to set this to NULL, but that causes 'failed to exec' messages"
       sysctl -w kernel.modprobe="/bin/true" >/dev/null 2>&1
       sysctl -w kernel.hotplug="/bin/true" >/dev/null 2>&1
   fi
fi

# Load modules (for backward compatibility with VARs)
if [ -f /etc/rc.modules ]; then
	/etc/rc.modules
fi

# Add raid devices
if [ ! -f /proc/mdstat ]; then
	modprobe md >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

if [ -f /proc/mdstat -a -f /etc/raidtab ]; then
	echo -n $"Starting up RAID devices: "

	rc=0

	for i in `grep "^raiddev" /etc/raidtab | awk '{print $2}'`
	do
		RAIDDEV=`basename $i`
                RAIDSTAT=`grep "^$RAIDDEV : active" /proc/mdstat`
		if [ -z "$RAIDSTAT" ]; then
			# Try raidstart first...if that fails then
			# fall back to raidadd, raidrun.  If that
			# also fails, then we drop to a shell
			RESULT=1
			if [ -x /sbin/raidstart ]; then
				/sbin/raidstart $i
				RESULT=$?
			fi
			if [ $RESULT -gt 0 -a -x /sbin/raid0run ]; then
				/sbin/raid0run $i
				RESULT=$?
			fi
			if [ $RESULT -gt 0 -a -x /sbin/raidadd -a -x /sbin/raidrun ]; then
				/sbin/raidadd $i
				/sbin/raidrun $i
				RESULT=$?
			fi
			if [ $RESULT -gt 0 ]; then
				rc=1
			fi
			echo -n "$RAIDDEV "
		else
			echo -n "$RAIDDEV "
		fi
	done
	echo

	# A non-zero return means there were problems.
	if [ $rc -gt 0 ]; then
		echo
		echo
		echo $"*** An error occurred during the RAID startup"
		echo $"*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot"
		echo $"*** when you leave the shell."

		PS1=$"(RAID Repair) \# # "; export PS1
		sulogin

		echo $"Unmounting file systems"
		umount -a
		mount -n -o remount,ro /
		echo $"Automatic reboot in progress."
		reboot -f
	fi
fi

_RUN_QUOTACHECK=0
# Check filesystems
if [ -z "$fastboot" ]; then
        STRING=$"Checking filesystems"
	echo $STRING
	initlog -c "fsck -T -R -A -a $fsckoptions"
	rc=$?
        if [ "$rc" = "0" ]; then
		success "$STRING"
		echo
	elif [ "$rc" = "1" ]; then
	        passed "$STRING"
		echo
	fi

	# A return of 2 or higher means there were serious problems.
	if [ $rc -gt 1 ]; then
	        failure "$STRING"
		echo
		echo
		echo $"*** An error occurred during the file system check."
		echo $"*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot"
		echo $"*** when you leave the shell."

		PS1=$"(Repair filesystem) \# # "; export PS1
		sulogin

		echo $"Unmounting file systems"
		umount -a
		mount -n -o remount,ro /
		echo $"Automatic reboot in progress."
		reboot -f
	elif [ "$rc" = "1" -a -x /sbin/quotacheck ]; then
		_RUN_QUOTACHECK=1
	fi
fi

# Mount all other filesystems (except for NFS and /proc, which is already
# mounted). Contrary to standard usage,
# filesystems are NOT unmounted in single user mode.
action $"Mounting local filesystems: " mount -a -t nonfs,smbfs,ncpfs

if [ X"$_RUN_QUOTACHECK" = X1 -a -x /sbin/quotacheck ]; then
	if [ -x /sbin/convertquota ]; then
	    # try to convert old quotas
	    for mountpt in `cat /etc/mtab | awk '$4 ~ /quota/{print $2}'`; do
		if [ -f "$mountpt/quota.user" ]; then
		    /sbin/convertquota -u $mountpt && \
			rm -f $mountpt/quota.user
		fi
		if [ -f "$mountpt/quota.group" ]; then
		    /sbin/convertquota -g $mountpt && \
			rm -f $mountpt/quota.group
		fi
	    done
	fi
	action $"Checking filesystem quotas: "  /sbin/quotacheck -v -R -a
fi

# Turn on process accounting
if [ -x /sbin/accton ] ; then
	action $"Turning on process accounting" /sbin/accton /var/log/pacct
fi

# Configure machine if necessary.
if [ -f /.unconfigured ]; then
    if [ -x /usr/bin/passwd ]; then
        /usr/bin/passwd root
    fi
    if [ -x /usr/sbin/netconfig ]; then
	/usr/sbin/netconfig
    fi
    if [ -x /usr/sbin/timeconfig ]; then
	/usr/sbin/timeconfig
    fi
    if [ -x /usr/sbin/authconfig ]; then
	/usr/sbin/authconfig --nostart
    fi
    if [ -x /usr/sbin/ntsysv ]; then
	/usr/sbin/ntsysv --level 35
    fi

    # Reread in network configuration data.
    if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
	. /etc/sysconfig/network

	# Reset the hostname.
	action $"Resetting hostname ${HOSTNAME}: " hostname ${HOSTNAME}
    fi

    rm -f /.unconfigured
fi

if [ -x /sbin/quotaon ]; then
    action $"Turning on user and group quotas for local filesystems: " /sbin/quotaon -a
fi

# Clean out /etc.
rm -f /fastboot /fsckoptions /forcefsck /halt /poweroff

# Do we need (w|u)tmpx files? We don't set them up, but the sysadmin might...
_NEED_XFILES=
[ -f /var/run/utmpx -o -f /var/log/wtmpx ] && _NEED_XFILES=1

# Clean up /var
# I'd use find, but /usr may not be mounted.
for afile in /var/lock/* /var/run/*; do
   if [ -d "$afile" ]; then
      [ "`basename $afile`" != "news" -a "`basename $afile`" != "sudo" -a "`basename $afile`" != "mon" ] && rm -f $afile/*
   else
      rm -f $afile
   fi
done

# Reset pam_console permissions
[ -x /sbin/pam_console_apply ] && /sbin/pam_console_apply -r

{
# Clean up utmp/wtmp
>/var/run/utmp
touch /var/log/wtmp
chgrp utmp /var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp
chmod 0664 /var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp
if [ -n "$_NEED_XFILES" ]; then
  >/var/run/utmpx
  touch /var/log/wtmpx
  chgrp utmp /var/run/utmpx /var/log/wtmpx
  chmod 0664 /var/run/utmpx /var/log/wtmpx
fi

# Delete X locks
rm -f /tmp/.X*-lock

# Delete Postgres sockets
rm -f /tmp/.s.PGSQL.*

# Now turn on swap in case we swap to files.
swapon -a
action $"Enabling swap space: " /bin/true

# Initialize the serial ports.
if [ -f /etc/rc.serial ]; then
	. /etc/rc.serial
fi

# If a SCSI tape has been detected, load the st module unconditionally
# since many SCSI tapes don't deal well with st being loaded and unloaded
if [ -f /proc/scsi/scsi ] && grep -q 'Type:   Sequential-Access' /proc/scsi/scsi 2>/dev/null ; then
	if grep -qv ' 9 st' /proc/devices ; then
		if [ -n "$USEMODULES" ] ; then
			# Try to load the module.  If it fails, ignore it...
			insmod -p st >/dev/null 2>&1 && modprobe st >/dev/null 2>&1
		fi
	fi
fi

# Load usb storage here, to match most other things
if [ -n "$needusbstorage" ]; then
	modprobe usb-storage >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

# If they asked for ide-scsi, load it
if grep -q "ide-scsi" /proc/cmdline ; then
	modprobe ide-cd >/dev/null 2>&1
	modprobe ide-scsi >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

# Generate a header that defines the boot kernel.
/sbin/mkkerneldoth

# Adjust symlinks as necessary in /boot to keep system services from
# spewing messages about mismatched System maps and so on.
if [ -L /boot/System.map -a -r /boot/System.map-`uname -r` ] ; then
	ln -s -f System.map-`uname -r` /boot/System.map
fi
if [ ! -e /boot/System.map -a -r /boot/System.map-`uname -r` ] ; then
	ln -s -f System.map-`uname -r` /boot/System.map
fi

# Now that we have all of our basic modules loaded and the kernel going,
# let's dump the syslog ring somewhere so we can find it later
dmesg > /var/log/dmesg
sleep 1
kill -TERM `/sbin/pidof getkey` >/dev/null 2>&1
} &
if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then
   /sbin/getkey i && touch /var/run/confirm
fi
wait

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Re: In search of boot script names.

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by John J. Boyer on December 29, 2001, at 08:56]

>Noww I find that if I
>do
>killall brltty
>brltty
>(as root, of course) the problems disappear. It's been working like a
>charm ever since.

I wonder if you, somehow, ended up with two BRLTTYs running at the same time.
Would you mind rebooting and capturing the output of "ps -ef"?

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Re: In search of boot script names.

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by John J. Boyer on December 29, 2001, at 08:56]

>So now I think the problems were caused by the place in
>the botup sequence at which it was called.

You bet they were! Now that I've looked at the script you snet me, the problem
is obvioius. Have a look at the code just below where you start BRLTTY.

# Rerun ourselves through initlog
if [ -z "$IN_INITLOG" ]; then
 [ -f /sbin/initlog ] && exec /sbin/initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -r /etc/rc.sysinit
fi

The rc.sysinit script, if invoked directly, reruns itself so that it's under
the control of initlog. This will, of course, result in BRLTTY being started
twice. You can either move your starting of BRLTTY beneath this if statement,
or start it from inittab as documented in the manual. I'll add a note about
this problem to the manual. Thank you.

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Re: In search of boot script names.

[John J. Boyer]

Dave,
Thanks for clarifying this problem. Everything is really working nicely
now.
John

On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by John J. Boyer on December 29, 2001, at 08:56]
>
> >So now I think the problems were caused by the place in
> >the botup sequence at which it was called.
>
> You bet they were! Now that I've looked at the script you snet me, the problem
> is obvioius. Have a look at the code just below where you start BRLTTY.
>
> # Rerun ourselves through initlog
> if [ -z "$IN_INITLOG" ]; then
>  [ -f /sbin/initlog ] && exec /sbin/initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -r /etc/rc.sysinit
> fi
>
> The rc.sysinit script, if invoked directly, reruns itself so that it's under
> the control of initlog. This will, of course, result in BRLTTY being started
> twice. You can either move your starting of BRLTTY beneath this if statement,
> or start it from inittab as documented in the manual. I'll add a note about
> this problem to the manual. Thank you.
>
>

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Re: In search of boot script names.

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by John J. Boyer on December 29, 2001, at 11:34]

>Thanks for clarifying this problem. Everything is really working nicely
>now.

And thanks to your investigation and discovery, there's now a note in the
manual which should help others avoid the same problem in the future.

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