creating rc.d scripts

Brian A. Seklecki bseklecki at collaborativefusion.com
Wed Mar 21 20:31:25 UTC 2007


what does: $ sudo rcorder /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* /etc/rc.d/* 

..look like?

~BAS

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:57 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Jim Stapleton wrote:
> > I created a script in my /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory, but for some
> > reason it doesn't auto start when I start my machine. I added entries
> > to the rc.conf that I thought should work, but they did not. On a
> > related not, my rc.conf file doesn't seem to disable autostart of
> > sendmail. Could anyone advise me?
> 
> Your rc script is probably not working because it might not find  
> python under /usr/local/bin unless you explicitly set $PATH to  
> include that directory.
> 
> Secondly, you want to use sendmail_enable="NONE" rather than "NO" if  
> you want to completely disable all of sendmail.  Setting it to "NO"  
> means that there is no sendmail daemon listening on port 25, but  
> there will still be a local client mqueue runner spawned to handle  
> local deliveries.
> 



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