Files appearing at boot in xinetd.d and rc.d

[Mark Sargent]

David Curry wrote:

> Mark Sargent wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have this in my rc.local file,
>>
>> [root at localhost rc.d]# cat rc.local
>> #!/bin/sh
>> #
>> # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
>> # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
>> # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
>>
>> touch /var/lock/subsys/local
>> /usr/local/bin/snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -i eth0 -g snort
>>
>> which is supposed to start snort with mysql support. Last Friday it 
>> would hang after initializing snort. I then commented out the line 
>> referring to snort, so as to get the OS to boot and then ran snort 
>> from the cli, which it did with no errors. Someone suggested that the 
>> line needed the D option so snort would run in the background, and 
>> hopefully not hang the boot. I did this yesterday, and then rebooted, 
>> and found that it didn't start at all. I then removed the D again to 
>> see if it gave the same results prior to adding the D option. 
>> Rebooted, and nothing still. No instance of snort trying to 
>> initialize and no instance once the OS is booted. Ok, at this point, 
>> I was lost. I then made sure snort was still installed, which it 
>> was(for it not to be woulda been weird, indeed). I then double 
>> checked for snort.conf, which was there(no different than last 
>> Friday). I then went into /etc/rc.d and checked that rc.local was 
>> definitely there, and that brings me to this question. Why, at every 
>> boot, do I get two rc.local files.?
>>
>> [root at localhost rc.d]# ls
>> init.d rc rc1.d rc3.d rc5.d rc.local rc.sysinit
>> ln8 rc0.d rc2.d rc4.d rc6.d rc.local~
>>
>> Even if I remove rc.local~, it returns at next boot. That I do not 
>> understand, but, it also happens with tftp in /etc/xinetd.d
>>
>> [root at localhost xinetd.d]# ls
>> chargen cups-lpd daytime-udp echo hotsmtpd rsync tftp~ time-udp
>> chargen-udp daytime dbskkd-cdb echo-udp hotwayd tftp time
>>
>> What is this..? If I have 2 rc.local files, both trying to excute the 
>> same code at boot, does this explain why snort is not appearing..? 
>> I'm a little lost. Cheers.
>>
>> Mark Sargent.
>>
> Mark, a thread some time back noted that an editor application (don't 
> remember which one) created a backup file on opening a file for 
> editing.  Said backup file was assigned the name of filein~.  The 
> files you are concerned about may be created a new on each boot with 
> the previous file saved with the same name and a ~ appended.  At any 
> rate, rc.local and rc.local~ are two distinct names and I don't 
> believe both are not trying to execute.
>
Hi All,

thanx, indeed, gedit does that..that's rediculous..I haveta remove the
backed up file each time I make a change with gedit...as I said,
rediculous..cheers, though, as that removes 1 thought to why snort is
now not even trying to initialize at boot..cheers.

Mark Sargent.