Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:39:57 -0400 From: JM <jmartin37@speakeasy.net> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rcNG script problems Message-ID: <42AF328D.8090502@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <200506141342.07886.kirk@strauser.com> References: <42AF0EDD.4090100@speakeasy.net> <200506141342.07886.kirk@strauser.com>
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Kirk Strauser wrote: >On Tuesday 14 June 2005 12:07, JM wrote: > > >>i've written an rcNG script but i'm having some issues. >> >> > >Step one: set rc_debug="YES" in /etc/rc.conf to see what's actually >happening when you attempt to run your script. That seems to uncover about >95% of the problems I've had. > > turned on the option rc_debug="YES" and ran 'dmesg -a'... the script doesn't even show up in the list anywhere. are we not supposed to be able to write custom rcNG scripts? is there something i'm overlooking where i need to register httpd_start in the rc stuff? here's my newbie impression of how rc works: - rc i run by init - rc runs rcorder on all script directories. - rc reads rc.conf and runs all scripts found by rcorder rcorder recognizes the script i wrote without any errors... yet when i boot the system, there is no "checkyesno" for httpd_start. there's nothing that references the script at all... WHY? >.< why did FreeBSD have to adopt this standard anyhow? it seems unnecessarily complicated to write custom scripts now.
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