rc.subr startup question

[Doug Poland]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:19:17AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-03-14 15:56, Doug Poland <doug at polands.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'm running 5.3-STABLE and I want to write a startup script for
> > ports/sysutils/mcron.  The twis is, I want an mcron process for
> > each user I specify in an external file.  For example...
> >
... snip ...
> 
> > This does not work because run_rc_command checks to see if the process
> > is already running before attempting to launch another instance.
> 
> Are you, by any chance, setting $pidfile to anything that is not shown
> above?  The check_pidfile() check is disabled when $pidfile is empty.
> 
no

> > Perhaps this is something best accomplished in /etc/rc.local?
> 
> Probably.
> 
That's what I did.  Not as elegant, but quick, easy, and it works.
Thanks for your help.


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Regards,
Doug