FreeBSD 4.8 local startup issues

K Anderson freebsduser at comcast.net
Mon Sep 8 22:42:26 PDT 2003



admin wrote:
> running:
> FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE
> 
> okay I am having a strange issue.
> 
> after the last reboot after my FreeBSD machine became unreachable - and
> required a power cycle.  mostly all processes listed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> did not start.  this only happens very rarely and has happens after FreeBSD
> crashed or is not brought down very cleanly.  can somebody recommend a way to
> auto run these scripts - and make sure these files get executed on boot up.
> 
> how can I make sure processes are running correctly with automation.   
> 
> the following line exists in my /etc/defaults/rc.conf file:
> 
> --- snip ---
> 
> local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d" # startup script dirs.
> 
> --- snip ---
> 
> - noah
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You can create some sort of cron task that checks for running processes 
and if it doesn't see it then it starts it up accordingly.



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