On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 10:42:39AM -0400, Jacob Adams wrote: > > On 6/22/19 7:05 AM, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 03:57:41PM -0400, Jacob Adams wrote: > >> I've got a shell script I'd like to run as a system service. Due to the > >> 16 character limitation on pgrep and the -x flag that rc.subr passes to > >> check by default, I can't get check or stop to work correctly. The > >> problem is that the process name looks like "/bin/sh > >> /usr/local/bin/script.sh" which, even if passed to pgrep, won't match > >> when -x is used. > >> > >> My rc.d script currently looks like this: > >> > > Hi. > > > > That should not be an issue, that's why pexp is used for. > > But without more context it's hard to know how to help you. > > > > I can match sh scripts without issue: > > $ pgrep -xf "/bin/sh /etc/gdm/Xsession /usr/local/bin/gnome-session" > > 77289 > > > > Are you sure your entire process line is "bin/sh /usr/local/bin/authmail"? > > We don't run into the 16 chars limitation when using -xf > > > Here's what I was seeing that led me to that conclusion: > > rukey$ ps aux | grep authmail > root 51889 0.0 0.1 724 568 p0- Ip Fri12AM 0:00.01 > /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/authmail > jacob 25510 0.0 0.2 272 892 p0 S+p 10:36AM 0:00.01 grep > authmail > rukey$ pgrep -f /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/authmail > 51889 > rukey$ pgrep -xf /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/authmail > > > However, I didn't think to quote it. that seems to fix it: > > rukey$ pgrep -xf "/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/authmail" > 51889 > > It appears that rc.subr uses quotes, but: > > rukey# pgrep -xf "/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/authmail" > 51889 > rukey# rcctl check authmail > authmail(failed) > rukey# > > Any idea what could be going wrong here?
Dunno, run rcctl in debug mode. -- Antoine
