recent rc changes

[Mark Ovens]

Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently made the jump to -stable from 6.0 on a box that I'm looking to 
> bring into production as soon as 6.1 hits.  Everything seems fine so far 
> but for one issue that I am guessing is related to the rc changes in 
> -stable.
> 
> This host has two jails, both started via the rc.conf method, ie:
> 
> # jail stuff - general
> jail_enable="YES"
> jail_list="somejail somejail2"
> jail_socket_unixiproute_only="YES"
> jail_sysvipc_allow="NO"
> # jail stuff - per jail settings
> # jail 1 - shell
> jail_jail1_rootdir="/jails/somejail"
> jail_jail1_hostname="somejail.bway.net"
> jail_jail1_ip="216.220.x.x"
> jail_jail1_exec_start="/bin/sh /etc/rc"
> jail_jail1_exec_stop="/bin/sh /etc/rc.shutdown"
> jail_jail1_devfs_enable="YES"
> jail_jail1_fdescfs_enable="NO"
> jail_jail1_procfs_enable="NO"
> jail_jail1_mount_enable="NO"
> jail_jail1_devfs_ruleset="devfsrules_jail"
> 
> Since the upgrade, I've noticed that none of the ports-installed services 
> in each jail start up.  For example, both jails have apache2 and 
> mysql40-server installed.  Everything in /usr/local/etc/rc.d within each 
> jail looks correct, and the startup flags are set in each jail's rc.conf. 
> They start fine if I login to the jail and run the scripts, but do not 
> start at boot.

See the thread "FreeBSD Port: sysutils/smartmontools (more RCng 
problems)" in -ports, particularly the posts by Doug Barton. It sounds 
like the same problem. I used his fix to get a couple of daemons to 
start at boot which had stopped doing so after u/g to 6.0.

------ quote Doug Barton --------

Ok, I installed this port and tested it myself, and the problem is the 
hard coded value of smartd_enable at the top of the script. For reasons 
I don't quite understand yet, hard coding the value in the script 
affects the boot-time operation of the script differently than on the 
command line.

The good news is that the fix is simple:

Index: smartd.sh
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/pcvs/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/files/smartd.sh,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 smartd.sh
--- smartd.sh   18 Nov 2005 11:46:38 -0000      1.5
+++ smartd.sh   6 Jan 2006 23:36:35 -0000
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
   #
   # DO NOT CHANGE THESE DEFAULT VALUES HERE
   #
-smartd_enable="NO"
-smartd_pidfile="/var/run/smartd.pid"
+smartd_enable=${smartd_enable:-NO}
+smartd_pidfile=${smartd_pidfile:-/var/run/smartd.pid}

   . %%RC_SUBR%%

------ quote Doug Barton --------

HTH

Regards,

Mark