From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 8 20:38:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F03816A422 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 20:38:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rob@roblytle.org) Received: from smtpout08-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpout08-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80FC943D45 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 20:38:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rob@roblytle.org) Received: (qmail 31390 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2006 20:38:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (24.21.188.210) by smtpout08-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.12) with ESMTP; 08 Mar 2006 20:38:10 -0000 Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 12:37:22 -0800 From: Rob To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20060308123723.4e74969e.rob@roblytle.org> Organization: roblytle.org X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.6.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts not starting after update to -stable, also /etc/rc.d syntax error X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:38:14 -0000 Hi, Yesterday I updated to -stable. I think that I did a decent job merging the /etc files and configuring rc.conf but I am getting some errors. First, the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d are not starting. I do have the following line in rc.conf: local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d" The syntax error reported on bootup is: /etc/rc.d/Makefile: 44: Syntax error: "(" unexpected. Perhaps that error is what is causing the local startup scripts not to execute. Thanks for any help you can give me. Rob Lytle -- ----------------------- http://www.roblytle.org Rob Lytle Home Page