Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:16:16 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: sgmayo@mail.bloomfield.k12.mo.us Subject: Re: Starting Scripts Message-ID: <20070625181616.41a207b3@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <467FDCC6.5090404@mail.bloomfield.k12.mo.us> References: <467FDCC6.5090404@mail.bloomfield.k12.mo.us>
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On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:18:30 -0500 Scott Mayo <sgmayo@mail.bloomfield.k12.mo.us> wrote: > I have set some things to automatically start in the rc.conf like ssh > and apache by doing 'sshd_enable="YES"' and 'apache22_enable="YES"'. > How do I start things like Zope and Cyrus? > > From the command line I can just: > > '/usr/local/cyrus/bin master &' for cyrus > > '/data/home/testuser/zope28/bin/zopectl start' for my instance of > zope. > > I use to add lines like this to the rc.local file in linux to get > them started. I was thinking that I read that this could still be > done in FreeBSD, but was not the preferred way to do it. > > From looking at the scripts in '/usr/local/etc/rc.d', it looks like > there are different ways. For zope it says that I can define > 'zope28_enable : "YES"' in '/etc/rc.conf', '/etc/rc.conf.local' or > '/etc/rc.conf/zope28', so I guess that I just add 'zope28_enable : > "YES"' to my rc.conf? > > Then the imapd script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d says to: > > move imapd.sh to '/etc/rc.d/cyrus_imapd' Don't do that - see below. >and define the cyrus_imapd_* > in '/etc/rc.conf', '/etc/rc.conf.local' or > 'etc/rc.conf.d/cyrus_imapd'. > > Then it shows '[ -z "$cyrus_imapd_enable" ] && > cyrus_imapd_enable="NO"' and [-z "$cyrus_imapd_flags" ] && > cyrus_imapd_flags="-d"'. > > Do I enter both of those commands in the '/etc/rc.conf' just as > shown? I assume the "NO" will be "YES". These two lines have me a > bit baffled. Those lines are setting defaults, you can override them by defining the variables in rc.conf. *All* rc.d scripts are run startup it's just that those that aren't enabled don't do anything. > I guess that I am still a bit confused on the '/etc/rc.d' and the > '/usr/local/etc/rc.d' directories. There is no imapd.sh in > '/usr/local/etc/rc.d', but it is only imapd. This has had me > confused because in the FreeBSD handbook it talked about the scripts > here would all end in .sh, but none of them do. The way that it > read, if there was an '.sh' file in '/usr/local/etc/rc.d' then that > script would be run at bootup. > The behaviour changed, it used to be that all the local scripts ended in .sh and ran in alphabetical order called from the same rc.d script in /etc/rc.d. Nowadays local scripts can be full rcng scripts if they have a provide field. If you are using an up-to-date FreebSD, don't move anything to /etc/rc.d, leave it where it is.
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