From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 8 22:42:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 329D616A4BF for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:42:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 586E343FF3 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:42:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsduser@comcast.net) Received: from comcast.net (12-225-143-41.client.attbi.com[12.225.143.41]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with SMTP id <2003090905422401200q5p7pe> (Authid: animotions); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 05:42:24 +0000 Message-ID: <3F5D6840.1010606@comcast.net> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:42:24 -0700 From: K Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: admin References: <20030909053406.M35653@enabled.com> In-Reply-To: <20030909053406.M35653@enabled.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8 local startup issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 05:42:26 -0000 admin wrote: > running: > FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE > > okay I am having a strange issue. > > after the last reboot after my FreeBSD machine became unreachable - and > required a power cycle. mostly all processes listed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d > did not start. this only happens very rarely and has happens after FreeBSD > crashed or is not brought down very cleanly. can somebody recommend a way to > auto run these scripts - and make sure these files get executed on boot up. > > how can I make sure processes are running correctly with automation. > > the following line exists in my /etc/defaults/rc.conf file: > > --- snip --- > > local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d" # startup script dirs. > > --- snip --- > > - noah > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > You can create some sort of cron task that checks for running processes and if it doesn't see it then it starts it up accordingly.