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service module does not work on FreeBSD, if startup script name differs from the "rcvar" #3382

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arsatiki opened this issue Jun 30, 2013 · 4 comments

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arsatiki commented Jun 30, 2013

Setting up a service on FreeBSD requires writing an rcvar line, i.e. "XXX_enabled = yes" to /etc/rc.conf and starting the daemon via startup script via the service tool.

At least for avahi-daemon, the names of the startup script and the rcvar differ. The startup script is called avahi-daemon, but the rcvar is avahi_daemon_enable. This breaks the FreeBSD service module for avahi-daemon.

It is possible to dig up the rcvar with the service command:

[ars@zardoz ~]$ service avahi-daemon rcvar
# avahi_daemon
#
avahi_daemon_enable="YES"
#   (default: "")

[ars@zardoz ~]$

The change looks easy enough, so I can provide a pull request once I've had time to work on it. However, I don't have time to work on it for at least for the few next days. If some one else wants to pick this up, feel free.

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mpdehaan commented Jun 30, 2013

Thanks, if you can take a crack at this, it would be much appreciated!

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arsatiki commented Jul 2, 2013

As a note to future myself or anyone else investigating this, here's a list of services I've encountered so far that suffer from this issue:

avahi-daemon
statd
lockd

Also possibly sendmail.

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arsatiki commented Jul 2, 2013

Sendmail's situation is more complex. It seems that a single script in rc.d can launch several daemon processes, each which have their own rcvars. So service sendmail rcvar returns this when sendmail is enabled:

# sendmail
#
sendmail_enable="yes"
#   (default: "")

# sendmail_clientmqueue
#
sendmail_enable="yes"
#   (default: "")
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="YES"
#   (default: "")

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Fix service enable on FreeBSD #3423

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mpdehaan pushed a commit that referenced this issue


          Fix service enable on FreeBSD

93fc339

Some services have a knob (i.e. rc.conf setting) whose name
differs from that of the script. For example, lockd process
is controlled with a script called lockd, but the rc.conf
value is rpc_lockd_enable.

Fixes issue #3382.

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mpdehaan commented Jul 20, 2013

merged the above so should be able to close this

mpdehaan closed this as completed

jimi-c pushed a commit that referenced this issue


          Merge pull request #3382 from abadger/py3-remove-maketrans

87c28bd

Remove need for translate/maketrans due to py3 differences

dagwieers added the bsd label

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