su command problem

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> To whom it may concern:
> 
> I am running into an issue using rc.conf to run
> applications at startup.  Specifically, nagios, and
> mysql.  When the system boots, it goes to a command
> prompt at the stage of the boot process when those
> applications would be run and then stops.  If I exit
> out of the prompt, booting continues normally.  

Maybe it really traces to the fact that you should not run any 
command from rc.conf.   It is not treated as a script.    

Rather, rc.conf is merely a list of variable settings that the 
startup scripts for various programs read up when they need it.

If you want to run something at startup, put them in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
give them a name ending in .sh and make them executable.
Those scripts will be run in roughly 'sort' order.

> 
> I believe I have traced the problem to the su command
> which is used in the rc.  In attempting to run the
> mysql w/ mysql_enable="YES" in the rc.conf, it su's to
> the mysql account and is supposed to run a command and
> exit.  It su's to mysql OK, but never runs the command
> and exits.  I have attempted this manually and
> received the same results.  

You don't want to run mysql in rc.conf, just do the setting
of mysql_enable="YES"  in there and put something like
  mysql-server.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d

In fact, the normal mysql install from ports puts the script
there.   You may have to change its permissions to make
it executable.

////jerry

> 
> This system is running FreeBSD 5.3.  I have another
> system which uses FreeBSD 5.2.1 and doesn't have this
> problem.  I'm not sure if this is a security fix that
> has been implemented in 5.3 or if the issue lies
> elsewhere.  
> 
> I have been able to implement a workaround to make
> them work by changing their startup scripts to not use
> su, but would like to resolve the issue.  
> 
> I have check the problem reports on the FreeBSD
> website and don't see anything that appears to be
> related.  I have also google'd this and found nothing.
>  I also didn't find anything in the manual.  Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
> 
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