Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:38:15 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.subr startup question Message-ID: <20050315143815.GA67147@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20050315061917.GB42670@gothmog.gr> References: <20050314215615.GM65944@polands.org> <20050315061917.GB42670@gothmog.gr>
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:19:17AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-03-14 15:56, Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> wrote: > > > > I'm running 5.3-STABLE and I want to write a startup script for > > ports/sysutils/mcron. The twis is, I want an mcron process for > > each user I specify in an external file. For example... > > ... snip ... > > > This does not work because run_rc_command checks to see if the process > > is already running before attempting to launch another instance. > > Are you, by any chance, setting $pidfile to anything that is not shown > above? The check_pidfile() check is disabled when $pidfile is empty. > no > > Perhaps this is something best accomplished in /etc/rc.local? > > Probably. > That's what I did. Not as elegant, but quick, easy, and it works. Thanks for your help. -- Regards, Doug
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