Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:01:49 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "David Allen" <the.real.david.allen@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc scripts Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080627165741.025edf40@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <2daa8b4e0806271411p709ad002o3137c7eb4ff53bac@mail.gmail.co m> References: <2daa8b4e0806271411p709ad002o3137c7eb4ff53bac@mail.gmail.com>
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At 04:11 PM 6/27/2008, David Allen wrote:
>I need to an '-s' flag to the execution of openntpd's rc script:
>
> # PROVIDE: openntpd
> # REQUIRE: DAEMON
> # BEFORE: LOGIN
> # KEYWORD: nojail
>
> . /etc/rc.subr
>
> name=openntpd
> rcvar=`set_rcvar`
> command=/usr/local/sbin/ntpd
> required_files=/usr/local/etc/ntpd.conf
> openntpd_enable=${openntpd_enable:-"NO"}
> load_rc_config $name
> run_rc_command "$1"
>
>The problems I'm having are multiple. First, the program doesn't offer
>any logging, and running it with the "do not daemonize" switch with
>
> # /usr/local/sbin/ntpd -d 2>&1 > logfile
>
>yields no output.
>
>Then, I'm not sure I understand everything I'm reading in rc.subr(8), but
>from trial error, I've discovered that modifying the script's "command"
>variable doesn't work, nor does adding the usual "scriptname_flags"
>directive to /etc/rc.conf.
>
>Comments, questions and complaints all welcomed.
Add:
set -x
at the top of the script and run the output to a file as you were doing. I
would add a path to the logfile though and don't worry about the daemon like:
/usr/local/sbin/ntpd start 2>&1 >/tmp/logfile
Then you can kill it off and see what the startup looked like in the logfile.
-Derek
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