webcamd-0.1.23 does not start via rc.d

Hans Petter Selasky hselasky at c2i.net
Thu Apr 14 06:48:46 UTC 2011


On Wednesday 13 April 2011 20:51:46 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Wednesday, April 13, 2011 a las 06:10:03PM +0200, Oliver Fromme 
escribió:
> > Matthias Apitz wrote:
> >  > I have webcamd-0.1.23 in a 9-CURRENT with ports from CVS from today;
> >  > even with the correct value in /etc/rc.conf webcamd does not start:
> >  > [...]
> > 
> >  > It seems to missing something:
> > Yes.  You must specify the USB unit and address, which you
> > can lookup with usbconfig.  For example, when the camera
> > attaches as ugen1.2, you must specify "1.2".
> > 
> > ...
> 
> But than the man page of webcamd(8) is incorrect (it says inserting a line
> in /etc/rc.conf is enough). And concerning the USB unit addr, I thought
> that webcamd(8) will just use the 1st unit which fits, at least it
> worked this way when I started webcamd(8) by hand without any further
> arguments.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 	matthias

Looks like your webcamd script is not the one that is in the port??

--HPS


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