On Thu, November 30, 2006 17:19, Per-Olov Sjoholm wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> I run ifstated on command line without any flags and everything works
> prefect....
>
> But when I add a statement to rc.local and a variable in rc.conf.local it
> starts at boot but simply refuse to work correctly.
>
> rc.local if [ X"${ifstated}" == X"YES" -a -x /usr/sbin/ifstated \ -a -e
> /etc/ifstated.conf ]; then
> echo -n ' ifstated'; /usr/sbin/ifstated fi
>
> rc.conf.local ifstated="YES" # "YES" or "NO"
>
> After it started at boot it simply refuse to do the 10 sec poll that I
> have in the ifstated.conf. If I kill ifstated that was started at boot and
> start it from command line with the same statement as from rc.local it
> works as it should.
>
> ????
>
>
>
> Anybody with a clue about what is going on here?
> Do I have to use a sleep statement at startup so it will wait for
> everything else (have 10 carps, 3 vlans and 6 physical nics + pfsync etc)?
> I have tried
> with a 30 sec sleep in rc.local before starting it without success....
>
> Thanks in advance
> Per-Olov
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Really embarrassing...
wget was specified in ifstated.conf without a full path and therefor
ifstated refused to work at boot but later at manual start....
/P
