Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:33:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Mitch Parks <mitch@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh not working? Message-ID: <20050614082632.L1139@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050614150240.GA62949@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20050614150240.GA62949@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
>
> I'm certain this is documented somewhere, but danged if I can find it.
>
> I have a whole variety of custom scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. For
> years now, simply giving them a name ending in .sh and making them
> executable has been sufficient to make them start on boot.
>
> On 5.x, it's not. And now, having upgraded to 4.11-s on some older
> boxes and running portupgrade -a, it's not.
>
> Obviously these scripts need something else. There's no fancy rcNG
> infrastructure in them; is rcNG a requirement for startup scripts now?
> Any pointers on where I can find the right documentation?
>
You might want to look at `man rc.d`. There are example scripts there.
When I went to 5.x I updated all of my rc.d scripts to use what's labeled
there as the "old style" format like:
The following is a simple, hypothetical example of an old-style
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ script, which would start a daemon at boot time,
and kill it at shutdown time.
#!/bin/sh -
#
# initialization/shutdown script for foobar package
case "$1" in
start)
/usr/local/sbin/foo -d && echo -n ' foo'
;;
stop)
kill `cat /var/run/foo.pid` && echo -n ' foo'
;;
*)
echo "unknown option: $1 - should be 'start' or 'stop'" >&2
;;
esac
SEE ALSO
kill(1), rc.conf(5), init(8), rcorder(8), rc.subr(8), reboot(8),
savecore(8)
HISTORY
The rc utility appeared in 4.0BSD.
FreeBSD 5.4 November 4, 2002 FreeBSD 5.4
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