Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:42:42 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Dan Rue <drue@therub.org> Cc: olof.a@home.se Subject: Re: Startup with no-ip Message-ID: <20040826164242.42b027a1.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040826203528.GF84634@therub.org> References: <65BA0DD3-F79D-11D8-A246-0003930BAE38@home.se> <20040826203528.GF84634@therub.org>
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Dan Rue <drue@therub.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:20:39PM +0200, Olof Andersson wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have problems getting noip to start automatically at startup. I'm a > > beginner at FreeBSD and Unix and I need help with this. I added some > > info from my system that I hope will be usefull. noip works fine when > > manually started. > > > > FreeBSD anderssons.no-ip.com 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: > > Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004 > > root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > > > In /usr/local/etc/rc.d I have a file called noip.sh with the following > > content: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > case "$1" in > > start) > > if [ -x /usr/local/bin/noip2 -a -f /usr/local/etc/no-ip2.conf > > ]; then > > echo -n ' noip'; > > su -m noip -c '/usr/local/bin/noip2' 2> /dev/null > > ^^ > Here's your problem. This script gets run as root, so the su is > redundant and failing. No. He wants to su to the user "noip" to run the command, which is actually a good idea. I would guess what's causing problems is this: "2>" I would guess that the "2" doesn't belong? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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