rc scripts

[Derek Ragona]

At 04:11 PM 6/27/2008, David Allen wrote:
>I need to an '-s' flag to the execution of openntpd's rc script:
>
>    # PROVIDE: openntpd
>    # REQUIRE: DAEMON
>    # BEFORE:  LOGIN
>    # KEYWORD: nojail
>
>    . /etc/rc.subr
>
>    name=openntpd
>    rcvar=`set_rcvar`
>    command=/usr/local/sbin/ntpd
>    required_files=/usr/local/etc/ntpd.conf
>    openntpd_enable=${openntpd_enable:-"NO"}
>    load_rc_config $name
>    run_rc_command "$1"
>
>The problems I'm having are multiple.  First, the program doesn't offer
>any logging, and running it with the "do not daemonize" switch with
>
>    # /usr/local/sbin/ntpd -d 2>&1 > logfile
>
>yields no output.
>
>Then, I'm not sure I understand everything I'm reading in rc.subr(8), but
>from trial error, I've discovered that modifying the script's "command"
>variable doesn't work, nor does adding the usual "scriptname_flags"
>directive to /etc/rc.conf.
>
>Comments, questions and complaints all welcomed.

Add:
set -x

at the top of the script and run the output to a file as you were doing.  I 
would add a path to the logfile though and don't worry about the daemon like:

/usr/local/sbin/ntpd start 2>&1 >/tmp/logfile

Then you can kill it off and see what the startup looked like in the logfile.

         -Derek


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