webcamd-0.1.23 does not start via rc.d

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Thursday 14 April 2011 10:09:13 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Thursday, April 14, 2011 a las 08:47:39AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky 
escribió:
> > On Wednesday 13 April 2011 20:51:46 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > > El día Wednesday, April 13, 2011 a las 06:10:03PM +0200, Oliver Fromme
> > 
> > escribió:
> > > > Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > > >  > I have webcamd-0.1.23 in a 9-CURRENT with ports from CVS from
> > > >  > today; even with the correct value in /etc/rc.conf webcamd does
> > > >  > not start: [...]
> > > > 
> > > >  > It seems to missing something:
> > > > Yes.  You must specify the USB unit and address, which you
> > > > can lookup with usbconfig.  For example, when the camera
> > > > attaches as ugen1.2, you must specify "1.2".
> > > > 
> > > > ...
> > > 
> > > But than the man page of webcamd(8) is incorrect (it says inserting a
> > > line in /etc/rc.conf is enough). And concerning the USB unit addr, I
> > > thought that webcamd(8) will just use the 1st unit which fits, at
> > > least it worked this way when I started webcamd(8) by hand without any
> > > further arguments.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > 	matthias
> > 
> > Looks like your webcamd script is not the one that is in the port??
> 
> No, it was installed by building the port:
> 
> # pkg_info | fgrep webcamd
> webcamd-0.1.23      A port of Linux USB webcam and DVB drivers into
> userspace
> 
> 
> # head /usr/local/etc/rc.d/webcamd
> #!/bin/sh
> # $FreeBSD: ports/multimedia/webcamd/files/webcamd.in,v 1.5 2010/12/12
> 22:52:07 kwm Exp $ #
> # PROVIDE: webcamd
> # REQUIRE: DAEMON
> #
> # Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf[.local] to enable webcamd:
> #
> # webcamd_enable="YES"
> #
> 
> HIH
> 
> 	matthias

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