/usr/local/etc/rc.d

[Rick Duvall]

I thought I had pasted an earlier post.  Maybe I forgot to do that.  here it
is...

On 5/7/03 10:56 AM, "Weldon Godfrey" <weldon at excelsus.com> wrote:

>
> I have a box running a version of FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE (on or before Fri Jan
> 31 11:32:06 ).
>
> For some reason, all of the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d don't run.
>
> * No errors are being seen during boot-up
> * All the scripts end in .sh
> * All are owned by root and mode 755
> * All are Borne shell scripts, all run from root's command line (when run
> in the numeric-alpha order they appear in the directory)
> * None except one does anything with start/stop, the one that takes
> start/stop is a typical postgresql startup script.
> * No over-ride for local_startup in /etc/rc.conf.  /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> has not been messed with
> * /etc rc has not been messed with.  I even stubbed the code from rc to
> see if it would run scripts with the names listed in the directory, and it
> will
> * 1st script is A00_mysql.sh, it looks like this (would the ldconfig
> cause a problem?  I have never seen that done before):
> #!/bin/sh
>
> /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/
>
> sleep 2
>
> /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql &
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice or what to check into next.
>
> Weldon
>

Try adding this to your /etc/rc.conf file:

local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d"


Mike
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org>
To: "Rick Duvall" <rduvall at onlinehighways.net>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 5:50 AM
Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d


> "Rick Duvall" <rduvall at onlinehighways.net> writes:
>
> > I am kind of curious as to if this issue has been resolved and what the
> > final resolution was.  I just started having the same exact issue as of
> > today on my little FreeBSD box at home.  I end up having to run the
scripts
> > in /usr/local/etc/rc.d manually after bootup.  I am half tempted to just
> > call the scripts in /etc/rc.local to get around it.  But, it would be
nice
> > if it would just work like normal like it is supposed to.
>
> Hard to say, since most of us aren't seeing this.
> If you actually *identified* the issue, it would be a lot easier to
> determine if it had been solved.
>