Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:50:26 -0500 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: rc.d Is not running anything on boot Message-ID: <E15XU5y-0004i4-00@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Is there any documentation for FreeBSD that describes in detail how rc.d works? I wrote in yesterday and several good souls on this list answered my question about starting dhcpd during boot. I got the FreeBSD port of ISC dhcpd and it works if started manually using the example script that the port installed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. When booting, however, there is no indication that any script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d is called. The dhcp startup script is the only file there right now and it does produce something if called. If called incorrectly, it echoes $0 and exits with an error status. If called correctly, it starts dhcpd and produces several lines in syslog. I don't see anything except normal bootup messages and all the other daemons starting. So far, I have tried installing a /etc/rc.conf.local file with the following: local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d" # startup script dirs. That line came right out of /etc/defaults/rc.conf with the exception that I cropped off the x11r6 directory, but it doesn't seem to matter either way. This system appears to be healthy and all the other processes do what they should be doing. Now, if I can just get rc.d to execute the scripts in it. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Data Communications Group To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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