startup / shutdown script (rc.d)

[Mikhail Goriachev]

gmoniey wrote:
> thanks for the ideas, i tried both of your suggestions...i manually ran the
> rails.sh file, and everything worked as expected...so i dumped the output to
> file...my .sh file looks as such:

[ trim ]

> the weird part is that the Rails found stop never printed...and im not sure
> why the mongrel_rails fails (im assuming that the kldload works fine as it
> doesn't print out any error messages if it is successfull)
> 
> i guess i will just keep playing with it...


Let's try a different approach. The following is a working script of 
your rails:

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#!/bin/sh

# PROVIDE: rails
# KEYWORD: nojail shutdown

. /etc/rc.subr

name="rails"
start_cmd="${name} start"
stop_cmd="${name} stop"

rails() {
         case ${rc_arg} in
                 start)
                         echo -n "Starting ${name}: "
                         echo -n "1 "
                         echo -n "2 "
                         echo "3"
                         ;;
                 stop)
                         echo -n "Stopping ${name}: "
                         echo -n "3 "
                         echo -n "2 "
                         echo "1"
                         ;;
                 *)
                         echo "dddzzzzz"
         esac
}

load_rc_config ${name}
run_rc_command "${1}"
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It looks different, but this is the new way how the OS fires things up. 
Place this script as "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/rails". Don't add the 
extension to it (.sh). The use of extensions is old school. Chmod it to 
555 (or 755).

Now give it a spin:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rails start
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rails stop
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rails restart
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rails blah

See what happens and then boot your machine. You'll see how it starts 
and stops. Once you're satisfied, tweak it to your needs.


If you want to control all aspects of the thing then you should read:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-starting-services.html

Also read the rc.d(8) and all of its rc.* related man pages.


You can get lots of good examples in "/etc/rc.d/". For instance 
"/etc/rc.d/usbd" is the simplest of them all.


Let us know how it goes.


Regards,
Mikhail.

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