On Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:55:43 +0200 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The change in question is effectively a nop. It does not remove the
> initialization of _localbase as you claim; it moves it from one place
> (/usr/sbin/periodic) to another (/etc/defaults/periodic.conf). The
> former reads the latter just a few lines below where it previously used
> to initialize _localbase. Did you forget to run etcupdate?
>
> DES
Very interesting... the patch of the _localbase setting in
/etc/defaults/periodic.conf had not been applied.
etcupdate was being run but it wasn't doing much. Turns out that
/var/db/etcupdate/current/ on that system was empty save for small
number of files/dirs. How everything else there got removed, I have
no idea!
New etcupdate extract run now and diff applied which has added the
patch to /etc/defaults/periodic.conf.
Thanks,
-jr
