Re: incorrect info in mysql docs
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 06:21:11PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/automatic-start.html On FreeBSD, [...] you should install the mysql.server script as /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql.server.sh to enable automatic startup. That's not actually right is it? My mysql is started by /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server. rc(8) says *.sh is for older style startup scripts or for scripts that are to be read into the current shell. yup, third-party documentation tends to be stale. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: incorrect info in mysql docs
Chris Whitehouse wrote: hi, I just noticed this at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/automatic-start.html On FreeBSD, startup scripts generally should go in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. The rc(8) manual page states that scripts in this directory are executed only if their basename matches the *.sh shell file name pattern. Any other files or directories present within the directory are silently ignored. In other words, on FreeBSD, you should install the mysql.server script as /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql.server.sh to enable automatic startup. That was before the import of the rc.subr subsystem from NetBSD. Sounds like the docs may be a trifle stale. That's not actually right is it? My mysql is started by /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server. rc(8) says *.sh is for older style startup scripts or for scripts that are to be read into the current shell. The rc.subr start up system was imported from NetBSD quite some time ago, I think it might have been sometime around the 6.0 to 6.2 time frame. I know this bit me because I had mostly not bothered with executing mergemaster during updates and at some point only scripts with the .sh extension would run. When others told me they did not experience this I got to looking for the culprit and it was that I had failed to update the /etc/rc.d properly with mergemaster to bring in the newly imported rc.subr subsystem. Before the rc.subr import from NetBSD the .sh extension was correct; some other OS's call these legacy start up scripts. After the rc.subr import the .sh extension is no longer required for scripts that are written in compliance to the new spec. If you examine a very old start up script from the pre rc.subr days and what is currently in use you will see a slight difference in the way the scripts are constructed internally. The .sh extension legacy scripts may still run if marked as executable, but the difference is that they do not contain the rc.subr hooks, and therefore will require the .sh extension for operation, as per the man page you described above. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: incorrect info in mysql docs
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:21:11 + Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com replied: I just noticed this at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/automatic-start.html On FreeBSD, startup scripts generally should go in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. The rc(8) manual page states that scripts in this directory are executed only if their basename matches the *.sh shell file name pattern. Any other files or directories present within the directory are silently ignored. In other words, on FreeBSD, you should install the mysql.server script as /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql.server.sh to enable automatic startup. That's not actually right is it? My mysql is started by /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server. rc(8) says *.sh is for older style startup scripts or for scripts that are to be read into the current shell. A start-up script is install automatically when using the ports system. You do need to activate it via /etc/rc.conf however. Perhaps MySQL could be prodded to post a reference to this on their website. It might help to avoid confusion. -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | Death is Nature's way of recycling human beings. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: incorrect info in mysql docs
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:11:17 -0400, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: A start-up script is install automatically when using the ports system. You do need to activate it via /etc/rc.conf however. Or in /etc/rc.conf.local, to illustrate the concept of the /usr/local/ subtrees in relation to the system's ones. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
