service(8) doesn't list dhcpd startscript

[Doug Barton]

On 03/04/2011 14:51, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Hilko Meyer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> today I played a bit with service(8) and I noticed that it doesn't
>> properly
>> detects the isc-dhcpd-startscript. System is 7.3-RELEASE-p4. 'service
>> -l' lists
>> isc-dhcpd but 'service -e' doesn't lists it:
>> | hilti at kirk:~> service -l | grep dhcp
>> | isc-dhcpd
>> | hilti at kirk:~> service -e | grep dhcp
>> | hilti at kirk:~> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/isc-dhcpd rcvar
>> | # dhcpd
>> | dhcpd_enable=YES
>
> It works for me on newer version of the FreeBSD (7.4-RELEASE) and with
> newer dhcpd (isc-dhcp41-server-4.1.2_2,1)
>
> ~/# service -l | grep dhcp
> isc-dhcpd
> isc-dhcpd6
>
> ~/# service -e | grep dhcp
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/isc-dhcpd
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/isc-dhcpd6
>
> ~/# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/isc-dhcpd rcvar
> # dhcpd
> dhcpd_enable=YES
>
> So you can compare rc scripts for those two versions or compare changes
> in service between these two FreeBSD releases.

I'm glad to hear that Miroslav was able to make it work. I looked at the 
code and it's pretty simple, so I'm not sure why it would fail.

Hilko, if you can add -x to the end of the #!/bin/sh line in 
/usr/sbin/service it might give you more of an idea of what's going on.


hth,

Doug

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