rc.d startup script problem

[Xtender]

hello!

i've tried to create my own statup script, but it doesn't work at startup. it works when run from within /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ directory manually, but not at startup.

i was trying to follow this guide: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...ing/index.html

Here is the script:

80# cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/test
#!/bin/sh
. /etc/rc.subr
name="test"
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
start_cmd="${name}_start"
stop_cmd=":"
test_start()
{
/usr/bin/touch /var/log/`date "+%H-%M-%S"`-test.log
}
load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command "$1"

I have added test_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf:

80# ./test rcvar
# test
test_enable=YES

It works when invoked manually (well, started at 23:40):

80# ./test start && ls /var/log/ | grep test
23-40-22-test.log

It just doesn't work upon startup What am i missing?

Thank you!

[graudeejs]

ok, another blind guess....
you have your script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
try putting it in /etc/rc.d

OR
try putting test_enable=YES in /usr/local/etc/rc.conf

[BSDKaffee]

Originally Posted by Xtender

/usr/bin/touch /var/log/`date "+%H-%M-%S"`-test.log

Try using the full path of 'date': /bin/date

You should also add rcorder(8) keywords. It should at least be:

#!/bin/sh

# PROVIDE: test
# REQUIRE: DAEMON

. /etc/rc.subr

name="test"
rcvar=`set_rcvar`

load_rc_config ${name}

: ${test_enable="NO"}

start_cmd="${name}_start"
stop_cmd=":"

test_start()
{
/usr/bin/touch /var/log/`/bin/date "+%H-%M-%S"`-test.log
}

run_rc_command "$1"

[phoenix]

Scripts ending in .sh are considered "old-style" scripts, and are run in alphabetical order after all "new-style" scripts.

Scripts without .sh are treated as "new-style" scripts, and are parsed by rcorder(8) before being executed. rcorder requires some header comments to determine what the script depends on and when it can be run. You can view how rcorder sees things by running:
# rcorder /etc/rc.d/* /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*
If you don't see your script listed there, then rcorder doesn't know about it. You're missing all the rcorder headers.

[Xtender]

At the moment I just changed the extension of these files to .sh and it seems to work perfectly.

rcorder /etc/rc.d/* /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*

command listed all my scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.conf, so probably the problem is in headers or something else. Later on I'll investigate also the case without .sh extension and report the results

Thanks

[ddekok]

Just out of curiosity, what are the permissions on your rc script?

[Xtender]

80# ls -la /usr/local/etc/rc.d | grep test
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   204 Oct 15 23:31 test.sh

[ddekok]

hmm, okay, my theory of not being executable just went out the window.

[phoenix]

If it was a permissions issue, then he wouldn't be able to run it manually via ./test as in the OP.

[ddekok]

Originally Posted by phoenix

If it was a permissions issue, then he wouldn't be able to run it manually via ./test as in the OP.

Now, now, you can't expect me to take into consideration every little pixel on the screen, can you?