service doen't get started at boottime, but can start manually

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 09:03:21 +0200
"O. Hartmann" <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> 
> I use a service (textprox/refdb from ports, refdb_enable="YES"
> in /etc/rc.conf.local) that is supposed to startup at boottime. On
> one CURRENT system, running
> 
>  FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #3 r271210: Sat Sep  6 22:39:59 CEST 2014 amd64
> 
> the service is not started at boottime, but I can start the service
> manually via
> 
> service refdb start
> 
> I tried enabling rc_debug=YES in /etc/rc.conf but I do not see any
> failure of the start attempt of that specific service in the logs or
> on the console. 
> 
> Is there an elegant way to debug rc.d and the startup procedure
> without having the system reboot (I do not have jails or VM, sorry)?
> 
could it be that the spelling in either rc.conf and the spelling in the
actual script differ so that FreeBSD does not start it?

Erich