On 24/10/14 14:53, Nick Holland wrote: > On 10/23/14 21:36, worik wrote: >> "Processes local and package scripts in /etc/rc.d" is listed as the last >> thing rc does after boot. >> >> What does "Processes" mean in this context? > > like "processing food" -- do whatever needs to be done. > (not my best analogy, I'll admit) >
[snip] > Look at the /etc/rc script...yes it does execute each of the rc.d > scripts, and yes it DOES pass "start" to them: [snip] > now look how start_daemon is invoked... Interesting. In /etc/rc start_daemon is called for specific named scripts. Except that (at line 520) it runs it for all scripts in $pkg_scripts My shell scripting is really bad (I am going to have to up my game there if I am going to stick around here) but it seems it is set to an empty string in rc.conf (Mis)reading the FAQ I thought it meant *all* scripts in /etc/rc.d were "Processed". . It actually says "...local and packaged scripts...". So if a package wants to be sure it is run at startup does it write that into the rc.conf where mine says... # rc.d(8) packages scripts # started in the specified order and stopped in reverse order pkg_scripts= I installed postgresql (with pkg_add) and it did not change this, I had to change /etc/rc.local by hand. Is there some reason why postgresql should not be started after a reboot? Have I completely got the wrong end of the stick? Worik > >> Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Init it seems my naive >> assumption is correct, but why run all those scripts? > > um. because that's how we do it? > > Before 4.9 or so...we hard-coded the startup process for each daemon in > /etc/rc, we decided to switch to the rc.d process for some additional > flexibility. > > I'll admit I was dubious when it was first done, fearing we might be > heading down the idiotic "everything.d" directories that many Linux > distros are now doing, but it turns out I rather like it. > > Nick. > > -- Why is the legal status of chardonnay different to that of cannabis? worik.stan...@gmail.com 021-1680650, (03) 4821804 Aotearoa (New Zealand) I voted for love [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
