rc script won't start daemon on reboot

Mike Makonnen mtm at identd.net
Wed Jul 21 03:15:15 PDT 2004


On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 10:44:39AM +0300, Mike Makonnen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:41:16PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> > 
> > bash-2.05b# uname -v
> > FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu Apr  3 10:53:38 GMT 2003 
> > root at freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> 
> FreeBSD 4.x does not use the rc.d mechanism during boot. It has
> a static rc(8). You should call the script from /etc/rc.local.
> 

On second thought, nevermind. I didn't realize it was in
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/, in which case it should be started with
all the rest of the ports scripts.

If your rc.subr supports it put rc_debug=yes in /etc/rc.conf
and post a link to the output (it's quite verbose :-).

Cheers.
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