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Date:      Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:34:11 -0600
From:      Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
To:        Peter Matulis <pmatulis@sympatico.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cannot launch vsftpd at system startup
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20070127173326.024d32f0@mail.computinginnovations.com>
In-Reply-To: <200701271805.47735.pmatulis@sympatico.ca>
References:  <200701271555.37416.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <6.0.0.22.2.20070127153616.02483ec0@mail.computinginnovations.com> <200701271805.47735.pmatulis@sympatico.ca>

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change the line:
. "%%RC_SUBR%%"

to:
. "/etc/rc.subr"

         -Derek




At 05:05 PM 1/27/2007, Peter Matulis wrote:
>Le Samedi 27 Janvier 2007 16:36, Derek Ragona a écrit :
> > add set -x to the startup script and debug where that error message
> > is coming from.
> >
> >          -Derek
> >
> > At 02:55 PM 1/27/2007, Peter Matulis wrote:
> > >Hi gang,
> > >
> > >I have read quite a few articles on how to start vsftpd at system
> > > bootup but nothing seems to work on my new and updated 6.2 STABLE
> > > machine.
> > >
> > >I have copied /usr/ports/ftp/vsftpd/files/vsftpd.sh.in
> > >to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vsftpd.sh and it is executable.
> > >
> > >In /etc/rc.conf I am placing:
> > >
> > >vsftpd_enable="YES"
> > >
> > >and in vsftpd.conf:
> > >
> > >listen=YES
> > >background=YES
> > >
> > >I can't see the error when my machine boots but when I attempt to
> > > run the rc.d script manually I get:
> > >
> > >.: Can't open %%RC_SUBR%%: No such file or directory
> > >
> > >I can start the daemon at the command line:
> > >
> > >/usr/local/libexec/vsftpd &
> > >
> > >I installed the port sysutils/rc_subr thinking it may help but it
> > > does not.  I also reinstalled vsftpd with the make option RC_NG but
> > > it doesn't seem to do anything (isn't it supposed to install the
> > > rc.d script?).
>
>The shell tries to parse this line:
>
>. "%%RC_SUBR%%"
>
>I have no idea what it is trying to source.
>
>Here is the entire script:
>--------------------------------------------
>
>#!/bin/sh
>#
># $FreeBSD: ports/ftp/vsftpd/files/vsftpd.sh.in,v 1.7 2006/02/20
>20:47:01 dougb Exp $
>#
>
># PROVIDE: vsftpd
># REQUIRE: DAEMON
>
># Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf to enable `vsftpd':
>#
># vsftpd_enable="YES"
># vsftpd_flags="/some/path/conf.file" # Not required
>#
>
>. "%%RC_SUBR%%"
>
>name="vsftpd"
>rcvar=`set_rcvar`
>
>load_rc_config "$name"
>: ${vsftpd_enable:="NO"}
>: ${vsftpd_flags:=""}
>
>command="%%PREFIX%%/libexec/$name"
>required_files="%%PREFIX%%/etc/$name.conf"
>start_precmd="vsftpd_check"
>
>vsftpd_check()
>{
>         if grep -q "^ftp[       ]" /etc/inetd.conf ${required_files}
>         then
>                 err 1 "ftp is already activated in /etc/inetd.conf"
>         fi
>         if ! egrep -q -i -E "^listen.*=.*YES$" ${required_files}
>         then
>                 err 1 "vsftpd script need "listen=YES" on config file"
>         fi
>         if ! egrep -q -i -E "^background.*=.*YES$" ${required_files}
>         then
>                 err 1 "vsftpd script need "background=YES" on config
>file"
>         fi
>}
>
>run_rc_command "$1"
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