Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On (2003/11/27 05:32), William B Hacker III wrote:
>
>
>>FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE on Intel PIII 1GHZ 1 GB RAM, 2 X 60 MB as ID RAID1
>>
>>Exim 4.24_2 from the FreeBSD ports tree.
>
>
> [...]
>
>
>>*BUT* - attempting to execute "/etc/rc.d/exim.sh start" returns:
>>=========================================
>>P?
>> .
>> ??..: not found
>>set_rcvar: not found
>
>
> Something weird has happened. :-(
>
> The startup script (exim.sh) is supposed to be installed into
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d on a RELENG_4 box.
It was. I move the scripts I use into /etc/rc.d, disable the rest by
adding .hold to their filename. Its a dev box.... <G>
You said you're running FreeBSD
> 4.9 RELEASE, which was cut from the RELENG_4 branch.
>
> In this case, the script is installed into /usr/local/etc/rc.d and the
> ports/mail/exim port depends on ports/sysutils/rc_subr, which should be
> installed automatically.
Not found in the usual places - where should it be on the 4.9 box?
>
> It's only on -CURRENT (currently 5.2-BETA) on which the script is
> supposed to be installed into /etc/rc.d. In this case, there's no
> dependency on ports/sysutils/rc_subr, because the rc_subr functionality
> is included in the base system.
>
> The port decides which configuration to use based on the value of the
> make variable OSVERSION, which is determined with this command:
>
> sysctl -n kern.osreldate
>
> What does that command give you on your box? If it's a number less than
> 500038, please show me the output of this command:
490000 for the 4.9-RELEASE box, and 500000 for the 5.1p10 box.
>
> ls /var/db/pkg | grep rc_subr
Null return on either box.
> grep exim /var/db/pkg/rc_subr-*/+REQUIRED_BY
grep: /var/db/pkg/rc_subr-*/+REQUIRED_BY: No such file or directory
(4.9 box)
grep: No match.
(5.1 box)
>
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
>
> --
Thanks...
Bill Hacker
