On 2015-12-31, Jay Hart <jh...@kevla.org> wrote: > Recently updated a router from 5.2 to 5.8. I had a working ddclient process > connected to and > fully working with DynDNS. Trying to use same config, may have to tweak just > a bit. > > My main issue right now is trying to get the ddclient process to run upon > booting. In 5.2, I had > the following script in rc.local > > if [ -x /usr/local/sbin/ddclient ] ; then > echo -n ' ddclient' > /usr/local/sbin/ddclient -file /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf > fi > > This ran ddclient upon startup. > > I've tried the same thing in rc.conf.local with no joy, it won't start. I > also commented that > out and tried > > ddclient = "" > > and also > > ddclient = "-file /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf" > > Upon every reboot ddclient is not running per a 'ps aux |grep dd' command. > Not is there a pid > file in /var/run > > ddclient will start manually. > > Looking for some guidance on getting this running please. > >
Either keep the old rc.local fragment or use the new rc.d(8) method by adding this to rc.conf.local: pkg_scripts=ddclient To set flags you can do: ddclient_flags=-file /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf
