/usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh not working?

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:43:55PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:58:36AM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:22:07AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Jun 14, 2005, at 11:10 AM, K?vesd?n G?bor wrote:
> > > 
> > > >For scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d You should add an entry to /etc/ 
> > > >rc.conf.
> > > >For example, if You script is somedaemon.sh, then add  
> > > >somedaemon_enable='YES' to /etc/rc.conf and it will run at the next  
> > > >boot.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > but his scripts don't use rc-ng, so this is pointless.
> > > 
> > > they should just work if they end in .sh and are executable.
> > 
> > And this is the million-dollar question: should they?  Two things
> > could be causing this behavior:
> > 
> > a) old-style .sh scripts are not supported, Michael needs to rewrite them for rcNG
> > b) old-style .sh scripts are supported, Michael has some other system problem
> > 
> > If a), fine.  If b), though, I need to really start digging.  Anyone
> > here know the definitive answer?
> 
> I am fairly certain that the answer is b).
> Although old-style scripts seem to be discouraged these days, they are
> still supported as far as I can tell.  More than half of the scripts I
> have in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ are old-style (some installed by ports
> that have not been converted to rcNG, and some purely local scripts).
> The old-style scripts work fine for me (using 5.4-STABLE.)
> 
> 
> One possibility is that the system mistakes your old-style scripts for
> rcNG scripts and therefore handles them wrong - but this is just a wild
> guess.

It's b) and this guess is wrong because we don't do any detection of
rcorder compatable scripts yet.  See /etc/rc.d/localpkg for exactly how
the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d get run.

My suggestion would be to write up a single rc.d script that handles
everything using some combination of ifconfig_<if> style variables or a
config file.  Then you have only one script and you'll be ready to go
when we move to full rcordering (hopefully in 7.0).

-- Brooks

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