From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 19 13:09:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 B3FF716A439 for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 13:09:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6451843D48 for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 13:09:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4JD9NOZ024129; Fri, 19 May 2006 09:09:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id k4JD9MMT024128; Fri, 19 May 2006 09:09:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200605191309.k4JD9MMT024128@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: phil@chycor.com Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 09:09:22 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <009901c67b3e$2c58be40$0207a8c0@P800> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble with rc.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 13:09:56 -0000 > > Hi All, > > I have a FreeBSD 5.3 box on which I have been adding references to > autostart various daemons in /etc/rc.conf - apache, mysql, openvpn etc... What exactly are you putting in to rc.conf? Do you mean stuff like: moused_enable="YES" or are they executable commands. What goes in rc.conf is setting variables that are checked by startup processes. > The daemons have suddenly stopped auto-starting and after each physical > restart of the server I have to manually run these daemons via > their .sh files in /etc/local/rc.d. Have you checked log files to see if they attempted to start and if they put out any error messages? Without that, it is hard to tell anything. For example, apache start will fail if a NIC binding it expects is not there. It puts a message in /var/log/messages and gives up. Others generaly log an error message somewhere. > Can anyone offer an explanation or guide me as to where to look to > figure out what is going on. Maybe, after you get more information. ////jerry > > Regards > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >