Re: warning: process 'update' used the obsolete bdflush...

From: Paul Rolland (rol@witbe.net)
Date: Sat May 31 2003 - 06:55:14 EST


Hello,

> On Sat, 31 May 2003 11:04:20 +0200, Paul Rolland wrote:
> >When switching from 2.4.20 to 2.5.x (x being recent), I have this
> >message...
> >
> >What does this mean ?
> >1 - I have no process named update running,
> >2 - I can't find anything name update in /etc/rc.d/* recursively.
>
> If you have a line with 'update' or 'bdflush' in
> /etc/inittab, remove it. (Its obsolete since mid-2.2 or so.)

Nice guess ! I have
ud:once:/sbin/update
within inittab.

The puzzling part is that, if it obsolete since mid-2.2, why is it
present on a RedHat 8.0 install ?

However, this question is not important ;-)

Thanks for the info, I'm gonna clean this !

Regards,
Paul

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