/usr/local/etc/rc.d

[Michael K. Smith]

On 5/7/03 10:56 AM, "Weldon Godfrey" <weldon at excelsus.com> wrote:

> 
> I have a box running a version of FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE (on or before Fri Jan
> 31 11:32:06 ).
> 
> For some reason, all of the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d don't run.
> 
> * No errors are being seen during boot-up
> * All the scripts end in .sh
> * All are owned by root and mode 755
> * All are Borne shell scripts, all run from root's command line (when run
> in the numeric-alpha order they appear in the directory)
> * None except one does anything with start/stop, the one that takes
> start/stop is a typical postgresql startup script.
> * No over-ride for local_startup in /etc/rc.conf.  /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> has not been messed with
> * /etc rc has not been messed with.  I even stubbed the code from rc to
> see if it would run scripts with the names listed in the directory, and it
> will
> * 1st script is A00_mysql.sh, it looks like this (would the ldconfig
> cause a problem?  I have never seen that done before):
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/
> 
> sleep 2
> 
> /usr/local/mysql/bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql &
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice or what to check into next.
> 
> Weldon
> 

Try adding this to your /etc/rc.conf file:

local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d"


Mike
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