Custom startup scripts do not work reliable?

eweri · Dec 21, 2007, 6:42 PM

Hello!

I want to run some startup scripts but I can not get it to work.

1. I just tried the simple one - put my shell script into /usr/local/etc/rc.d/myscript.sh but it does not start.

2. I tried to write a little script that starts my own script - now I get more and more processes of this script over time (currently I have a pfsense running at customer site that has 6 of my script running after 9 days of uptime :-()

Is there any docs how the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* has to be written to work?

3. I tried to add a cron jobs that runs my script every 30 minutes this time it worked but I want to run this script not at every half an hour - I and want to run it after reboot every 30 minutes. So it should run at boottime+n*30minutes and not at *:00 and *:30.

I found something about "shellcmd in config.xml" here at the forum but I can not find any more docs of this and how to run it.

Every hint is welcome,
eweri

sullrich · Dec 21, 2007, 7:41 PM

1. Add your script to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
2. The script must end in .sh
3. chmod a+rx /usr/local/etc/rc.d/scriptname.sh

eweri · Dec 21, 2007, 7:48 PM

@sullrich:

1. Add your script to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
2. The script must end in .sh
3. chmod a+rx /usr/local/etc/rc.d/scriptname.sh

This is what I have done - and it does not work - but my script runs in an endless loop - maybe this is the problem?

Bye,
eweri