Current Gnome 2.32 rc.d Startup scripts

[shep]

It looks like the startup scripts for cups, gdm etc have been modified but I can not find any documentation on how to implement the script.

2010-10-29 06:54:44 by Antoine Jacoutot | Files touched by this commit (28)

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Add RCS IDs to rc scripts.

2010-10-28 06:15:13 by Steven Mestdagh | Files touched by this commit (1)

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add comment indicating reason for gnu libtool

2010-10-28 05:01:18 by Antoine Jacoutot | Files touched by this commit (4)

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Add an rc script for gdm.
ok robert@

In Slackware one makes the script executable in /etc/rc.d. In FreeBSD one enables the script in rc.conf

Anyone have insight into how to enable avahi, cups, dbus and gdm?

This is the new, modified rc.local script

# $OpenBSD: rc.local,v 1.40 2010/10/26 20:56:03 robert Exp $

# Site-specific startup actions, daemons, and other things which
# can be done AFTER your system goes into securemode. For actions
# which should be done BEFORE your system has gone into securemode
# please see /etc/rc.securelevel.

echo -n 'starting local daemons:'

for _r in $rc_scripts; do
[ -x /etc/rc.d/${_r} ] && /etc/rc.d/${_r} start && echo -n " ${_r}"
done

It looks like it reads the string rc_scripts which I cannot find in /etc

The entries in /etc/rc.d

# cd /etc/rc.d
# less
Missing filename ("less --help" for help)
# ls
avahi_daemon cupsd gdm rc.subr saslauthd
avahi_dnsconfd dbus_daemon mpd saned

Thanks in advance

[jggimi]

OpenBSD does not have an rc.d infrastructure. Only /etc/rc, /etc/rc.local, /etc/rc.conf, and /etc/rc.conf.local. The conf files are only for variables used in /etc/rc -- they are not used in /etc/rc.local.

[BSDfan666]

Originally Posted by jggimi

OpenBSD does not have an rc.d infrastructure. Only /etc/rc, /etc/rc.local, /etc/rc.conf, and /etc/rc.conf.local. The conf files are only for variables used in /etc/rc -- they are not used in /etc/rc.local.

There will be a rc.d implementation in 4.9, this was done by Robert Nagy at the p2k10 ports hackathon I believe.

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=128811627000775&w=2

We can only hope that this implementation will be better than the offerings of other systems, I know that rc.d scripts are unaesthetically pleasing on Linux.

Personally I believe that one should learn the base utilities over blindly executing some scripts in /etc/rc.d, other OpenBSD users may agree with me.

[jggimi]

There's been an rc.subr in -current for approximately a week. As the rc.d infrastructure is not yet in -current, my statement is (-current-ly) factual.

Edited to add -- ok; longer than a week. October 26.

Add a simple 'rc' system to base in order to start/stop/restart/reload services installed by the ports system (for now).It only uses pgrep/pkill to handle these processes. A manual page willcome later.

[BSDfan666]

Right, it's in the latest snapshots now though.. AFAIK, it'll only be used by ports until a decision is made.

I'm guessing OP is running -current snapshots?

[shep]

I was trying a current snapshot from 11-2 after failing to update 4.8 release to 4.8 stable.

[shep]

I finally figured this out.

In /etc/rc.conf.local place

rc_scripts="dbus_daemon avahi_daemon cupsd gdm"

Edit for syntax change.

2011/07/07 - rc.conf 'rc_scripts' variable renamed to 'pkg_scripts'
The rc.conf(8) rc_scripts variable has been renamed to pkg_scripts. Edit rc.conf.local(8) accordingly to be able to start package daemons automatically on boot.
This change was introduced to make it clear that pkg_scripts should only be used to store packages(7) rc.d(8) scripts names.