Re: startup / shutdown script (rc.d)

2007-07-08 Thread gmoniey
to those interested, I finally solved this problem, it turns out that the path wasnt correctly set for /usr/local/bin, and adding this line fixed it PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/startup---shutdown-script-%28rc.d%29-tf3848895.html#a11496394 Se

Re: startup / shutdown script (rc.d)

2007-06-07 Thread gmoniey
Jerry McAllister-2 wrote: > > Just as a test, I made the following sample script and named it chkrc.sh > and put it in /usr/local/etc/rc.d with execute permission. > It works just fine running from command line or as part of boot > or shutdown.You might try it as proof of concept and go f

Re: startup / shutdown script (rc.d)

2007-06-05 Thread gmoniey
as my luck would have it...this didn't work...i used your script...test it by running ./rtest start & ./rtest stop and everything worked fine (note: i changed the name from rails to rtest as rails is an actual command)... but when i rebooted nothing happened. I had the output dump to file and the

Re: startup / shutdown script (rc.d)

2007-06-05 Thread gmoniey
t to come out to 2 lines...but it is really 1) gmoniey wrote: > > thanks for the ideas, i tried both of your suggestions...i manually ran > the rails.sh file, and everything worked as expected...so i dumped the > output to file...my .sh file looks as such: > > #!/bin/sh >

Re: startup / shutdown script (rc.d)

2007-06-04 Thread gmoniey
thanks for the ideas, i tried both of your suggestions...i manually ran the rails.sh file, and everything worked as expected...so i dumped the output to file...my .sh file looks as such: #!/bin/sh case "$1" in start) echo "RAILS found start" >> /tmp/test.file kldload accf_http >>

Re: startup / shutdown script (rc.d)

2007-06-04 Thread gmoniey
S" in the rc.conf file, and that didn't work (although I didn't expect it to work, as I didn't assign a name in my script). any ideas? Jerry McAllister-2 wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:05:17PM -0700, gmoniey wrote: > >> >> Hi Noberto, >&g

Re: startup / shutdown script (rc.d)

2007-06-01 Thread gmoniey
thanks to both of youi will give those examples a shot tonight...thanks again! gmoniey wrote: > > Hi Noberto, > > I actually looked at the apache one, and it seemed so complicated, there > were 2 files for it, one of which was relatively short and the other was >

Re: startup / shutdown script (rc.d)

2007-05-31 Thread gmoniey
m out. I dont quite see how something as simple as "apachectl start" is expanded into so many lines. maybe i will get some time in the near future to understand it... Norberto Meijome-2 wrote: > > On Thu, 31 May 2007 14:06:45 -0700 (PDT) > gmoniey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

startup / shutdown script (rc.d)

2007-05-31 Thread gmoniey
Hi, I was wondering if there is a simple way to create 1 script that will be called during startup and shutdown. Basically, I am looking for something like this: if startup run command 1 with params run command 2 with params run command 3 with params if shutdown run command 4 with p