From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 11:03:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF3BF37B401 for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 11:03:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimera.noanet.net (chimera.noanet.net [66.119.192.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD0F43FAF for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 11:03:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mksmith@noanet.net) Received: from [64.81.189.2] (mks733.mks.noanet.net [64.81.189.2]) by chimera.noanet.net (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with SMTP id h47I3pOw074032; Wed, 7 May 2003 11:03:51 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 11:03:45 -0700 From: "Michael K. Smith" To: Weldon Godfrey , FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20030507134713.X39887-100000@ohm.excelsus.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 18:03:59 -0000 On 5/7/03 10:56 AM, "Weldon Godfrey" wrote: > > I have a box running a version of FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE (on or before Fri Jan > 31 11:32:06 ). > > For some reason, all of the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d don't run. > > * No errors are being seen during boot-up > * All the scripts end in .sh > * All are owned by root and mode 755 > * All are Borne shell scripts, all run from root's command line (when run > in the numeric-alpha order they appear in the directory) > * None except one does anything with start/stop, the one that takes > start/stop is a typical postgresql startup script. > * No over-ride for local_startup in /etc/rc.conf. /etc/defaults/rc.conf > has not been messed with > * /etc rc has not been messed with. I even stubbed the code from rc to > see if it would run scripts with the names listed in the directory, and it > will > * 1st script is A00_mysql.sh, it looks like this (would the ldconfig > cause a problem? I have never seen that done before): > #!/bin/sh > > /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/ > > sleep 2 > > /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql & > > > Thanks in advance for any advice or what to check into next. > > Weldon > Try adding this to your /etc/rc.conf file: local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d" Mike -- Michael K. Smith NoaNet 206.219.7116 (work) 206.579.8360 (cell) mksmith@noanet.net http://www.noanet.net