Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:00:23 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: service doen't get started at boottime, but can start manually Message-ID: <1432238.cTAuqBVlva@curlew.lan> In-Reply-To: <540D5EFB.50402@freebsd.org> References: <20140907090321.12bbc428.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <6382694.vtzGnnjiph@curlew.lan> <540D5EFB.50402@freebsd.org>
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On Monday 08 Sep 2014 09:47:07 Stefan Esser wrote: > This was for a reason: [snip detailed explanation why PROVIDE: is needed in local rc scripts] > This is obviously a shortcoming in the documentation, which should > be fixed. AFAIK, the old style startup files have never been > deprecated and are still fully supported ... Thanks for explaining this, it was very informative. I think it would be good if the documentation could indicate that the PROVIDE: line is mandatory for scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. A couple of months ago I created a simple rc script based on the example at <https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/rc-scripting/rcng-confdummy.html>; which does not use PROVIDE:. Since this script needed to run before local filesystems were mounted I had to install it into /etc/rc.d so fortunately it worked for me. If it had gone into /usr/local/etc/rc.d I would have been having difficulty working out why the documentation was providing code that didn't work. -- Mike Clarke
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