Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:46:22 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh not working? Message-ID: <200506151046.23079.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <6E39C810-AA1D-43AA-B2FA-CA8C387141CF@khera.org> References: <20050614150240.GA62949@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20050614151939.GA63065@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <6E39C810-AA1D-43AA-B2FA-CA8C387141CF@khera.org>
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 01:18, Vivek Khera wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2005, at 11:19 AM, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> > For example, I have a server with about 400 separate MRTG daemons on
> > it. (Yes, they must be separate, for administrative rather than
> > technical reasons.) Each daemon has a custom script. These aren't
> > ports, and they have no rcNG infrastructure.
>
> that many, eh...
>
> perhaps you're running into a shell command line limit somewhere
> which does something like
>
> foreach i (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh)
>
> and having that glob expansion blowing up in the shell.
find /usr/local/etc/rc.d -name \*.sh -exec {} start \;
Although old style scripts SHOULD work if it ends in .sh and is executable.
According to my reading of rc.subr - if they end in .sh they will be source=
d=20
in the current shell, otherwise they will be sourced in a subshell.. Dunno =
if=20
that is affecting things (see run_rc_script)
=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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