rcrun.sh

[Joris Giovannangeli]

Hi

I hitted an issue running rcstart smtpd, to start opensmtpd installed
from dports.

rcstart smtpd
smtpd depends on mail, current state: stopped

Here are the provide smtpd metada :

# PROVIDE: smtpd mail
# REQUIRE: LOGIN
# KEYWORD: shutdown


Actually, it fails in dostart function from sbin/rcrun/rcrun.sh

The functions does that :

   buildrclist $i
            for j in $rclist; do
                need=1
                for k in `rcorder -p $j`; do
                    if [ $k = $i ]; then
                        need=0
                    else
                        state=`varsym -s -q rcng_$k`
                        case X$state in
                        Xrunning*|Xconfigured*|Xirrelevant*|Xdisabled*)
                            ;;
                        *)
                            echo "$i depends on $k, current state: $state"
                            _return=1
                            ;;
                        esac
                    fi
                done
            done

rclist is the topological sorting of the dependency graph of the service
to start (in $i).

Hence, for each dependency, the script iterates the provide list
(rcorder -p) and check the status of the services in this list which are
not the service to start.

I see why you want to test if the dependency is running, but why testing
each provided service ?

regards,

joris