From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 5: 1:33 2002 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 74F7A37B400 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 05:01:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from catflap.home.slightlystrange.org (host217-39-153-84.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.39.153.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70ADC43E42 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 05:01:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.home.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17VWRm-00046x-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:01:22 +0100 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:01:22 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Need help with apcupsd startup script Message-ID: <20020719120122.GA15760@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions References: <3D37F0E2.3080902@intersonic.se> <3D37F0E2.3080902@intersonic.se> <5.1.0.14.0.20020719135041.04247cd0@mail.inter-sonic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020719135041.04247cd0@mail.inter-sonic.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan *17VWRm-00046x-00*Gqa79NmlJj.* (SlightlyStrange.org, Using NOD32 http://www.nod32.com) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 01:53:13PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > At 12:10 7/19/2002 +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: > >On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:58:42PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I am using apcupsd installed from ports with no mods. > >> apcupsd itself runs fine but the script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apcupsd.sh > >> returns: > >> apcupsd.sh: Cannot determine the PREFIX > >> when I try it. > >> I assume there are some Linux specific paths in there? > > > > > >How are you calling the script? You must give the absolute path on > >the command line, or the first block (if ! ...) will make it bomb out > >with the error message. > > > >HTH > > > >Dan > > You are correct. > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apcupsd.sh start|stop > will work. > Now, how would I modify the script to make "sh apcupsd.sh start|stop" > executed from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ work? You can remove the first if block, but I would recommend you leave it as is - all the scripts installed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d tend to run this check, so I guess for sanity's sake rc must make use of it to ensure it is running a valid script. If it really bugs you typing the full path, I guess you could try a shell alias? This will work, in sh or bash: # alias apcupsd="/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apcupsd.sh $@" Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message