Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:35:04 -0500 (EST) From: "wjm@ciberlynx.net" <wjm@tiger.ciberlynx.net> To: "Tomlinson, Drew" <Drew.Tomlinson@lc.ca.gov> Cc: "'FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Newbie Help Diagnosing Startup Script Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102201230010.13627-100000@tiger.ciberlynx.net> In-Reply-To: <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F0239C02537@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Tomlinson, Drew wrote:
> Newbie Alert.
>
> I am trying to diagnose why a startup script doesn't seem to run
> automatically during startup but seems to run fine when invoked from the
> command line. My script lives in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. I have checked the
> man pages and verified that /etc/defaults/rc.conf contains this directory in
> the local_startup line and there are no overrides in /etc/rc.conf. My
> script is called dynip.sh and it has the following "permissions" (is this
> the right term?).
>
> -rwxr-x--x 1 root wheel 111 Sep 13 04:51 apache.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 233 Dec 20 11:36 dynip.sh
>
> I included the apache.sh line because this script appears to work as apache
> starts up automatically. This is the contents of my dynip.sh script:
>
> 112 Blacksheep# cat dynip.sh
> #!/bin/sh
>
> case "$1" in
> start)
> [ -x /usr/local/bin/dynipclient ] && ( /usr/local/bin/dynipclient &
> ) &&
> echo -n ' dynipclient'
> ;;
> stop)
> echo -n ' dynipclient'
> ;;
> *)
> echo "Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop}" >&2
> ;;
> esac
>
> exit 0
>
i'd keep it simple as such:
#!/bin/sh
#
[ -x /usr/local/bin/dynipclient ] && /usr/local/bin/dynipclient && echo -n
' dynipclient'
> This script was compliments of Don Maddox. I don't have a clue about
> writing *nix scripts but plan to learn soon. Anyway, the attempt here is to
> run a client program that registers my dynamic IP address with a DNS service
> I subscribe to. When I invoke the script manually, it appears to run fine.
>
> 125 Blacksheep# ./dynip.sh start
> dynipclientdynipclient[1483]: Using client configuration file
> '/etc/dynip.cfg'
> 126 Blacksheep# Feb 20 08:41:20 blacksheep dynipclient[1483]: Using client
> confi
> guration file '/etc/dynip.cfg'
> Feb 20 08:41:20 blacksheep dynipclient[1483]: Using client configuration
> file '/
> etc/dynip.cfg'
> Feb 20 08:41:20 blacksheep dynipclient[1484]: active
> Feb 20 08:41:20 blacksheep dynipclient[1484]: active
>
> Any help diagnosing this problem would be greatly appreciated. If there is
> other information I can include to help figure this out, please let me know.
> I don't know if there are log files that would show this executing or not.
> If there are, please nudge me in the right direction. If there's not, how
> can I create them?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Drew
>
> P.S. I apologize if this comes across as HTML. I'm stuck with an MS$
> client at work but if I can send this via an SMTP service, it will come
> across as plain text. If it goes through our Exchange server, it is HTML
> even though I have specified plain text. Gotta love M$!
>
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