problems with a rc.d script I'm creating

Jim Stapleton stapleton.41 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 2 06:45:01 PDT 2007


Thanks, I'll play with that a bit more.

-Jim Stapleton

On 9/2/07, Mel <fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 02 September 2007 14:18:17 Jim Stapleton wrote:
> > > I haven't figured out the proper way myself, but the problem is that the
> > > defaults you set at top, override the rc.conf variables, because they
> > > don't exist yet. What I do is move load_rc_config before setting
> > > defaults. General order becomes:
> > > name=foo
> > > rcvar=`set_rcvar`
> > > load_rc_config ${name}
> > > foo_default=${foo_default:-"default value"}
> > > run_rc_command "$1"
> > >
> > > Seems to work, maybe I'll figure out the proper way once I finish
> > > reading:
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/rc-scripting/index.ht
> > >ml
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Putting this before anything else butt he #!/bin/sh and the intro
> > comments "worked" but spat out some errors.
> > ========================================
> > name=akpop3d
> > rcvar=`set_rcvar`
> > load_rc_config ${name}
> > ========================================
> > [root at legolas /usr/local/etc/rc.d]# ./akpop3d start
> > set_rcvar: not found
> > load_rc_config: not found
> > Starting akpop3d.
> > ========================================
> >
> >
> > So, I tried putting the `. /etc/rc.subr` before that, but it didn't
> > even start the server (processed with no errors, and a ps -A showed no
> > server)
>
> That's weird. Here's my qpopper one, that works. Maybe you can find what's
> causing the errors for you:
> #!/bin/sh
> # PROVIDE: qpopper
> # REQUIRE: DAEMON
>
> . /etc/rc.subr
>
> name="qpopper"
> rcvar=`set_rcvar`
> load_rc_config $name
>
> qpopper_config=${qpopper_config:-"/usr/local/etc/qpopper.config"}
> qpopper_host=${qpopper_host:-"127.0.0.1"}
> qpopper_port=${qpopper_port:-"110"}
>
> command="/usr/local/libexec/${name}"
> command_args="-f ${qpopper_config} ${qpopper_host}:${qpopper_port}"
> required_files=${qpopper_config}
>
> run_rc_command "$1"
>
> > Also, if you reply, could you please reply-all? Sorry, I have this
> > list in digest mode due to volume, and I can't do a proper reply that
> > keeps thread information without having a normal copy.
>
> Ah. Done.
>
>
> --
> Mel
>
> People using reply to all on lists, must think I need 2 copies.
>


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