AWS builds appears to rerun "everyboot" inithooks over and over?! Not just at boot...

[JedMeister]

As per subject, AWS (i.e. EC2 AMI) & ISO builds rerun the "everyboot" inithooks (/usr/lib/inithooks/everyboot.d/) every minute!

As inithooks should be idempotent, it shouldn't have any negative impact.

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[update] seen in v18.x VM (ISO install) recently. Hasn't been seen it in LXC to date - assume issue is intermittent and/or requires specific circumstance.

[JedMeister]

@OnGle noted offline that he hasn't yet been able to reproduce this!?

[OnGle]

Issue is:

1. Our login wrapper runs: a. inithooks b. confconsole c. prints motd d. login
2. Confconsole is not run on AWS
3. Login will exit after 1 minute IDLE
4. Getty will restart the process for a given TTY when it exits.

[OnGle]

Note this fix doesn't actually address the cause of the issue. But it will ensure everyboot scripts only run everyboot, no matter how many times you execute /usr/lib/inithooks/run.