Is /etc/rc.local called twice on boot?

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 12:47:59AM +0200, Bo Berglund wrote:
> I have a custom call in /etc/rc.local to report the IP address of the system on
> boot. It is set to run 60 seconds after the rc.local itself gets called.
> This has worked fine in several installations both on Ubuntu and Raspbian.
> 
> But now (maybe since upgrading to 20.04 from 18.04) each time I reboot the call
> is made twice with about 10 seconds time difference.
> 
> So I wonder if /etc/rc.local is called twice during boot nowadays?
> 
I rune things from rc.local in 20.04 and haven't seen this happening.

I'd *guess* that something else is reporting the IP address, this is
done by some things I believe.  You could try removing the call from
rc.local and see if you still get the IP address reported.

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Chris Green