Startup at boot problem

[Florent Thoumie]

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 09:17 -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Friday, March 24, 2006 20:17:23 +1100 Sam Lawrance 
> <lawrance at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 24/03/2006, at 6:10 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> >
> >> I'm working on a new port that uses tcl scripting rather than
> >> compiled binaries.  The startup script works fine except at boot.
> >> During the boot, I get this error message:
> >> "exec: tclsh8.4: not found"
> >>
> >> The script has the following in the "header" section:
> >> # PROVIDE: sensor_agent
> >> # REQUIRE: LOGIN tclsh8.4
> >> # BEFORE: LOGIN
> >> # KEYWORD: FreeBSD shutdown
> >>
> >> Is there some other word I can use in REQUIRE that will allow
> >> tclsh8.4 to be found?
> >
> > I think you've misunderstood what REQUIRE is meant to do (it's not  for
> > specifying dependencies like a port does with *_DEPENDS). See the  man
> > page for rcorder.
> >
> Hmm...I'm pretty sure I know what REQUIRE means.  It means that you don't 
> want your script to start until the REQUIREd items have been started.
> 
> I solved the problem by using the full path in the script.  Originally it 
> had "exec tclsh8.4".  I patched it to have "exec /usr/local/bin/tclsh8.4", 
> and it starts fine on boot now.   Obviously PATH didn't have /usr/local/bin 
> in it at the time the script was being initiated.

Default PATH doesn't have ${PREFIX}/(s)bin at all. See /etc/rc.

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Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer