Startup with no-ip

[Bill Moran]

Dan Rue <drue at therub.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:20:39PM +0200, Olof Andersson wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I have problems getting noip to start automatically at startup. I'm a 
> > beginner at FreeBSD and Unix and I need help with this. I added some 
> > info from my system that I hope will be usefull. noip works fine when 
> > manually started.
> > 
> > FreeBSD anderssons.no-ip.com 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: 
> > Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004     
> > root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> > 
> > In /usr/local/etc/rc.d I have a file called noip.sh with the following 
> > content:
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > 
> > case "$1" in
> >     start)
> >         if [ -x /usr/local/bin/noip2 -a -f /usr/local/etc/no-ip2.conf 
> > ]; then
> >             echo -n ' noip';
> >             su -m noip -c '/usr/local/bin/noip2' 2> /dev/null > 
>               ^^
> Here's your problem.  This script gets run as root, so the su is
> redundant and failing.

No.

He wants to su to the user "noip" to run the command, which is actually
a good idea.

I would guess what's causing problems is this: "2>"

I would guess that the "2" doesn't belong?

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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