Service won't start in FreeBSD jail

[scottro]

I asked this on the FreeBSD forums. but no one answered. (Maybe it's my breath?--hrrm, doesn't make sense).
Anyway, I have a simple jail that I use for testing. There is no /etc/rc.conf. I installed nginx and set it up. I created an /etc/rc.conf.d/nginx file that reads

nginx_enable="YES"

This is what I do on my main workstation, use /etc/rc.conf.d rather than /etc/rc.conf

However, when I run service nginx start, I get

ngingx does not exist in /etc/rc.d or the local startup
directories (/etc/rc.d), or is not executable

I can start it by cd-ing (in the jail) to /usr/local/etc/rc.d and then running

 ./nginx start

Doing some web searching has found nothing relevant so I suspect I'm missing something obvious but I can't figure out what it is that I'm missing.

[Onauk]

Originally Posted by scottro

However, when I run service nginx start, I get

ngingx does not exist in /etc/rc.d or the local startup
directories (/etc/rc.d), or is not executable

I don't know much about jails but I understand that there is some chroot-ing going on. Have you placed your configuration file in the correct directory within the chroot?

[scottro]

I believe so. I think it was put there by the installation of the package. The config is in /usr/local/nginx which is normal for a non-base program.

[Onauk]

Originally Posted by scottro

However, when I run service nginx start [...]

Can you enable it with service -j jail nginx start ?

[scottro]

Good idea, but same message.

sudo service -j webjail nginx start
nginx does not exist in /etc/rc.d or the local startup
directories (/etc/rc.d), or is not executable

I do thank you for the suggestions. It's not that big a deal if it doesn't work, I'm just sort of curious what I might have missed, as it works every other time I've used it (on work machines, etc.)

[c-c-c-c]

Originally Posted by scottro

However, when I run service nginx start, I get

ngingx does not exist in /etc/rc.d or the local startup
directories (/etc/rc.d), or is not executable

Could it be as simple as a misspelling?

[blackhole]

@c-c-c-c: well spotted, but I think that typo was corrected in a later post:

Originally Posted by scottro

Good idea, but same message.

sudo service -j webjail nginx start
nginx does not exist in /etc/rc.d or the local startup
directories (/etc/rc.d), or is not executable

I do thank you for the suggestions. It's not that big a deal if it doesn't work, I'm just sort of curious what I might have missed, as it works every other time I've used it (on work machines, etc.)

The emphasised part above is what stands out for me. If I try to start a non-existent service, albeit not in a jail, I see the following:

# service foobar start
foobar does not exist in /etc/rc.d or the local startup
directories (/usr/local/etc/rc.d), or is not executable

Your nginx rc script is probably installed under /usr/local

For some reason service(8) is not searching that path.

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?service(8)

...the local startup directories. As described in rc.conf(5) this is usually /usr/local/etc/rc.d.

Perhaps double check the jail configuration in /etc/rc.conf ?