Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:48:26 -0500 From: Robert Lowe <Robert.H.Lowe@lawrence.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting a second loopback interface and services at startup Message-ID: <40B7897A.2080703@lawrence.edu> In-Reply-To: <40B75018.50203@lawrence.edu> References: <40B75018.50203@lawrence.edu>
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Robert Lowe wrote:
> Hi!
>
> New to FreeBSD and running 5.2.1-RELEASE on an Alpha. I do predominantly
> SysV/ATT boxes, so I feel a bit out of it...
>
> Question #1:
> I need to create a second loopback interface, which I can do just fine
> at the command line:
>
> # ifconfig lo1 create
> # ifconfig lo1 inet a.b.c.d netmask x.x.x.x
>
> How do I automate this at startup? I stumbled across something in
> /etc/network.subr that suggests I ought to create /etc/start_if.lo1
> which would then be sourced. I assume I can add a ifconfig_lo1
> variable to /etc/rc.conf. I tried these, but with no luck. Can
> anyone point the way?
I figured out the correct way to do this:
1. Override the default network_interfaces variable in
/etc/defaults/rc.conf in /etc/rc.conf. This is a space-separated
list of interfaces to start. I included the new loopback interface
to create.
2. Create a /etc/start_if.<if-name> script to create the interface.
3. Add a ifconfig_<if> variable to rc.conf as well. I had this already,
so I did not have to do anything.
The reason the last two steps did nothing before was the list of
interfaces in the netif script is generated using 'ifconfig -l',
which of course does not include interfaces which haven't yet been
created, and so the start_if.<if-name> script is not run.
> Question #2:
> I'm trying to start Quagga services on this box (zebra and ospfd).
> I added scripts to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ for these two, but no luck.
> They work fine from the command line, e.g.
>
> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/zebra.sh start
> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ospfd.sh start
>
> Both have the .sh extension, which seems to be required. How should
> I troubleshoot this? I don't find anything in dmesg.today suggesting
> that there was even an attempt to run the scripts. Also, can one use
> the rcorder keywords to provide startup ordering for scripts in
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d ???
The scripts now run properly, but in the wrong order, so I still need
an answer here. They seem to execute in alpha-numeric order. I suppose
I could start them in one script, but that's not really the answer. Help!
I suppose I could use the Snn<name> SysV approach. ;-)
-Robert
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