On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 12:45:42PM +0100, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote: > Hi, > > When using rcctl to start a service that is not a true daemon, such > as anacron (from ports), and that service does its job and exits > immediately, then rcctl will wait for the allotted timeout to expire and > report failure: > > $ rcctl get anacron > anacron_class=daemon > anacron_flags=-s > anacron_timeout=30 > anacron_user=root > > $ doas anacron -s -d > Anacron 2.4.3 started on 2016-01-09 > Normal exit (0 jobs run) > > $ doas rcctl start anacron > anacron(failed) > > I'm not sure how to fix this. It doesn't break anything, but it delays > the boot process.
rc.d is for daemons only. If anacron is just a standard utility that needs to be run at boot time then use rc.local or cron's @reboot facility. -- Antoine
