On bootup check to see if rc.newwanip is excuting and if so, delay for 5 seconds until it is finished. This works around the silly bug in 1.2.X:

Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device).
Thus no job control in this shell.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/etc/rc b/etc/rc
index 340cc49..75eea7e 100755
--- a/etc/rc
+++ b/etc/rc
@@ -317,13 +317,18 @@ nohup /usr/bin/nice -n20 /usr/local/sbin/check_reload_status &
 # Start ping handler for every 240 seconds
 minicron 240 /var/run/ping_hosts.pid /usr/local/bin/ping_hosts.sh
 
-echo "Bootup complete"
-
 /usr/local/bin/beep.sh start 2>&1 >/dev/null
 
 # Reset the cache.  read-only requires this.
 rm /tmp/config.cache
 
+while [ "`ps awwux | grep -v grep | grep rc.newwanip`" ]; do
+	echo "Delaying startup while rc.newwanip finishes" | logger
+	sleep 5
+done
+
 /etc/rc.conf_mount_ro
 
+echo "Bootup complete"
+
 exit 0