Re: tip on updating rc.local on FreeBSD 2.2.8

["Karl" <karl@proline.at>]

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better to place a shop.sh file in user/local/etc/rc.d

best regards,

karl

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Von: Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>
An: Minivend User's List <minivend-users@minivend.com>
Datum: Mittwoch, 3. Februar 1999 21:37
Betreff: tip on updating rc.local on FreeBSD 2.2.8


>******    message to minivend-users from Mark Stosberg
<mark@summersault.com>     ******
>
>
>Hello!
>
> I'm working on having the minivend server start automatically when the
>server reboots, and I get errors when running both the suggested
>commands from the commandline as root. This is on FreeBSD 2.2.8
>
> The commands I tried were:
>
>su -c /usr/local/mvend/bin/start mvend
>
>        su -c mvend <<EOF
>/usr/local/mvend/bin/start
>EOF
>
>which both resulted in the same error:
>su: /nonexistent: No such file or directory
>
>I'm sure this related to mvends password file entry, which looked like so
>
>mvend:encrypted_passwd:1042:1042:Minivend
>pseudo-user:/usr/local/mvend:/nonexistent
>
>The solution was to use this syntax instead:
>su -m mvend -c '/usr/local/mvend/bin/start'
>
>
>I hope this is helpful to others!
>
>
>
>    -mark
>http://flip.summersault.com
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