Thank you for the report, not the first about this warning (from another place):
 Bug 30844 . Doubtless we shall see it again...
I do not have either the hardware check or the egrep error message in my system journal. Can you post a short section of the journal before it?

Assigning to basesystem for systemd.

Source RPM: (none) => systemd-252.4-1.mga9.src.rpm
See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30844
Assignee: bugsquad => basesystem

The checking for new hardware is from mandrake_everytime.

I'm running m8 currently.

# grep egrep /etc/init.d/*
/etc/init.d/mandrake_everytime:    NUMPROC=`egrep -c "^cpu[0-9]+" /proc/stat`
# rpm -q -f /etc/init.d/mandrake_everytime 
initscripts-9.78-27.mga8

It's still there in cauldron
https://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/initscripts/current/SOURCES/initscripts-10.04-mageia.patch?revision=1614631&view=markup#l1961

Source RPM: systemd-252.4-1.mga9.src.rpm => initscripts-10.04-2.mga9.src.rpm
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Strange, it did not end up in the syslog. I have run 'journalctl --since "2022-12-26"| grep egrep' and I got no result. Instead there are multiple matches for an obsolete fgrep concerning Shorewall. I have seen the "obsolete egrep, use grep -E" at least two times on boot.

Checking initscripts was a good hint, Dave, since at me (Mageia not Mandrake) there was (I had tried it as I filed the bug) not match in /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.*.
# grep egrep $(rpm -ql initscripts) 2>/dev/null
/usr/libexec/mageia_everytime:    NUMPROC=`egrep -c "^cpu[0-9]+" /proc/stat`
/usr/sbin/service:		egrep -q 'restart.*\)' $subsys || continue
/usr/sbin/service:		echo $(egrep -a '^#.*chkconfig: ' $subsys|awk '{print $4}') $subsys
/usr/sbin/service:	    if egrep -q ".*disable.*yes.*" ${xinetddir}/${serv};then
/usr/sbin/service:	if egrep -q '^([^#]*)status\)' $service;then

Created attachment 13602 [details]
grep [ef]grep $(rpm -ql shorewall) 2>/dev/null

Shall I also paste the fgrep-s for Shorewall here or open an on bug on Shorewall for it? There was no fgrep in initscripts on Mageia 9.

Created attachment 13603 [details]
grep -n [ef]grep $(rpm -ql shorewall) 2>/dev/null

It shall be done with grep -n to get line numbers:
# grep -n egrep $(rpm -ql initscripts) 2>/dev/null
/usr/libexec/mageia_everytime:77:    NUMPROC=`egrep -c "^cpu[0-9]+" /proc/stat`
/usr/sbin/service:34:		egrep -q 'restart.*\)' $subsys || continue
/usr/sbin/service:37:		echo $(egrep -a '^#.*chkconfig: ' $subsys|awk '{print $4}') $subsys
/usr/sbin/service:58:	    if egrep -q ".*disable.*yes.*" ${xinetddir}/${serv};then
/usr/sbin/service:120:	if egrep -q '^([^#]*)status\)' $service;then

Attachment 13602 is obsolete: 0 => 1

On Mageia 8 ...
$ grep -n [ef]grep $(rpm -ql initscripts) 2>/dev/null
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mandrake_everytime:77:    NUMPROC=`egrep -c "^cpu[0-9]+" /proc/stat`
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-eth:121:    ps xw | egrep "${CLIENTS}" | grep ${DEVICE} | awk '{print $1;}'
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-eth:164:    for ip in `ip addr show | egrep ${DEVICE}\$ | grep inet | awk '{print $2;}'`; do
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless:136:        echo "$WIRELESS_ENC_KEY" | egrep -q '^(open|restricted) '
/usr/sbin/service:34:           egrep -q 'restart.*\)' $subsys || continue
/usr/sbin/service:37:           echo $(egrep -a '^#.*chkconfig: ' $subsys|awk '{print $4}') $subsys
/usr/sbin/service:58:       if egrep -q ".*disable.*yes.*" ${xinetddir}/${serv};then
/usr/sbin/service:120:  if egrep -q '^([^#]*)status\)' $service;then

One bug per package. Optionally a tracker bug that depends on all of the
other bugs.

bug for Shorewall is no bug 31334.