ports and /etc/rc.d/ [was: Where to put my own startup script]

[Oliver Eikemeier]

Tobias Roth wrote:

> [...]
> 
> 1) ports startup scripts use rc.subr and get a common structure (good)
> 2) with a common structure, rcorder can be used for ports as well (good)
> 3) /etc/rc.d/ and /usr/etc/rc.d/ get mixed up (bad)

You meant /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ here?

> 4) ports can be started early in the boot process (good, ie for things like
>    racoon)
> 5) /etc/rc.conf contains directions about ports and is not just a subset of
>    /etc/defaults/rc.conf anymore (bad, same thing as 3)
> 
> we tend towards 1) already. once a decision about the other points has been
> taken, what's left is that all ports are (slowly) converted to this.
> an update to the porters handbook and after a while, a warning when an
> old-style startup script will be executed is the way to go.
> 
> 2) will be very nice. PR 56736 from eik seems to address this very
> elegantly. ports that need to be started early can be started directly after
> the dummy PORTS dependency, all others that do not explicitly request a
> specific startup order should be started at the end of rc.d/. this of
> course also solves 4).

You should not really use PORTS, but whatever you need to run.

> [...]
> 
> now, shouldn't racoon be started before mountcritremote? #$%#!#, i think
> i just shot myself in the foot. comments please :-) i am sure that can
> be fixed elegantly as well.

The problem here is that /usr might not be a local filesystem, so touching
anything there before mountcritremote is not a really good idea.

-Oliver