start/stop script woes: ./squid.sh: Cannot determine the PREFIX

[Andreas Klemm]

Hi fellows,

again I trapped over this (and this many times in the last 1-2 years),
when this kind of start-stop script methodology had been introduced
to the ports tree.

Its really not very comfortable having to call the start/stop scripts
with the complete path.

root at titan[ttyp2]{211} /usr/local/etc/rc.d ./squid.sh start
./squid.sh: Cannot determine the PREFIX
Exit 1

Even `pwd`/squid.sh is PITA.
And all because of arrangement like this which I very dislike
in the meantime:

#!/bin/sh

if ! PREFIX=$(expr $0 : "\(/.*\)/etc/rc\.d/$(basename $0)\$"); then
    echo "$0: Cannot determine the PREFIX" >&2
    exit 1
fi
[...]

I don't know if you share my feelings about that ;-)

It would be much more comfortable, if the ports would patch the
prefix into the start/stop-script during installation of the port,
like other ports hopefully still do.

I think this only has been coded this way for "coolness sake",
but not really for functionality for the admins, who need it
from time from time.

I trapped over this so many times, but this time I wanted to
bring this up on -ports ;-)

Q: Can we get rid of that and hardcode the paths in start stop
scripts so that they can be called without complete path ?

	Andreas ///

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