Startup at boot problem

Sam Lawrance lawrance at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 24 09:18:10 UTC 2006


On 24/03/2006, at 6:10 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote:

> I'm working on a new port that uses tcl scripting rather than  
> compiled binaries.  The startup script works fine except at boot.   
> During the boot, I get this error message:
> "exec: tclsh8.4: not found"
>
> The script has the following in the "header" section:
> # PROVIDE: sensor_agent
> # REQUIRE: LOGIN tclsh8.4
> # BEFORE: LOGIN
> # KEYWORD: FreeBSD shutdown
>
> Is there some other word I can use in REQUIRE that will allow  
> tclsh8.4 to be found?

I think you've misunderstood what REQUIRE is meant to do (it's not  
for specifying dependencies like a port does with *_DEPENDS). See the  
man page for rcorder.




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