Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:35:28 -0500 From: Dan Rue <drue@therub.org> To: Olof Andersson <olof.a@home.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Startup with no-ip Message-ID: <20040826203528.GF84634@therub.org> In-Reply-To: <65BA0DD3-F79D-11D8-A246-0003930BAE38@home.se> References: <65BA0DD3-F79D-11D8-A246-0003930BAE38@home.se>
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:20:39PM +0200, Olof Andersson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have problems getting noip to start automatically at startup. I'm a
> beginner at FreeBSD and Unix and I need help with this. I added some
> info from my system that I hope will be usefull. noip works fine when
> manually started.
>
> FreeBSD anderssons.no-ip.com 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0:
> Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004
> root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>
> In /usr/local/etc/rc.d I have a file called noip.sh with the following
> content:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> case "$1" in
> start)
> if [ -x /usr/local/bin/noip2 -a -f /usr/local/etc/no-ip2.conf
> ]; then
> echo -n ' noip';
> su -m noip -c '/usr/local/bin/noip2' 2> /dev/null >
^^
Here's your problem. This script gets run as root, so the su is
redundant and failing.
> /dev/null
> fi
> ;;
> stop)
> echo -n ' noip';
> killall noip2
> ;;
> *)
> echo "Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop}" >&2
> exit 1
> ;;
> esac
> exit 0
>
[snip]
dan
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