Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 12:19:01 +0200 From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> To: freebsd-stable stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Service started via service(8) fails Message-ID: <E54A85CC-673A-4617-AEFB-2877BF0F5EE4@punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <f4494f4f-0676-524e-b152-c861593a084b@grosbein.net> References: <202105270818.14R8Ig20087984@nordnytt.cc.uit.no> <f4494f4f-0676-524e-b152-c861593a084b@grosbein.net>
index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail
[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi all, > Am 27.05.2021 um 11:56 schrieb Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>: > > 27.05.2021 15:18, Ingeborg Hellemo wrote: > >> FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE-p3 >> >> What, if any, difference is there between using 'service <something> restart' >> and /usr/local/etc/rc.d/<something> restart'? >> >> I have this mindboggling situation where using 'service tac_plus restart' >> leads to a service that is running but not working properly, whereas >> '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/tac_plus restart' gives me a working service. > > The "service" command resets the environment but direct script invocation inherits the environment. > Such problem often is a sign of wrong startup script or configuration of the service > that makes incorrect assumption about PATH and/or locale settings. > It may fail to find some commands because it does not set PATH to include /usr/local/... directories > or fail due to incorrect locale assumptions or even TZ (time zone) settings. Since /usr/sbin/service is itself a shell script you could try sh -x /usr/sbin/service tac_plus restart sh -x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tac_plus restart and compare what is actually executed. Kind regards, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH Patrick M. Hausen .infrastructure Kaiserallee 13a 76133 Karlsruhe Tel. +49 721 9109500 https://infrastructure.punkt.de info@punkt.de AG Mannheim 108285 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Egeling, Daniel Lienert, Fabian Stein [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEgzqrjO/mj9CSsTg2kG8u4u3aiVwFAmCvchUACgkQkG8u4u3a iVzLTgf7Buavle4bgMQ0gOpJzKtUugZvva0CPQ1/1+GNqOZAAoCJzg4tSN0h2xrE fV0k24r7UBo9Dmko7LtksgS0/cD1FVSn/ZU4TzAQnBJlXfiVHoEiVHJeT+Hb/LZb hx7jM5Ogq7Ib7XkhyEKjrzS9qMAUOCgYXciaqOvVWp3tqVM6xa5Gg4CUrlK/dY1N Q2R6DKjyk+Kmnt9p/gyi0tBXVuzj88q9eAnL9d1XYkCXEPz0fToN+8tSzJ6THYC0 O7FZLxp+wqr6YqEAHwFrDN8H4TPw58jDPcidXjurWSR+l84mhLp1/gZ1cpSIrAU6 y5xU9DdTawTOZ58Jx3gEDpbXfT9Whg== =i0YY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
Want to link to this message? Use this
URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?E54A85CC-673A-4617-AEFB-2877BF0F5EE4>