Inserting a custom rc-script doesn't work

ikrabbe

Hi,

I connect to the internet via dsl through the kernel pppoe module.

For this purpose I checked out a pppd from cvs and installed it by hand --- WORKS FINE.

Now I want to start this ppp deamon on each bootup of course, writing a "dsl" script in /etc/init.d, since the net.ppp0 script is complete
overload when you configure pppd via /etc/ppp/options.

All I really need is call pppd eth0, but thats not the matter.

Also I took the net.ppp0 script and changed it for my purposes, keeping the essential functions: start, stop and checkconfig.

I tested the script with "runscript /etc/init.d/dsl start/stop", which works fine. After inserting the script by "rc-update add dsl default"
I'm rebooting to see if anything is in place BUT IT ISN'T ???

What happened to me, where can I look. Anything seems fine but it simply isn't executed. Does anybody know a bit further ?

BYE INGO

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Maybe try using boot runlevel instead of default?
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ikrabbe · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 7:43 pm Post subject: OK I'll try it

But why should that help ? A short notice about that could be helpful !

ikrabbe · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 7:59 pm Post subject: Still not running

Thats frustrating isn't it. What's going wrong here ? I would like to insert custom startup scripts, but they aren't executed.

rc-update add dsl boot
rc-update add dsl default

These commands add the link to /etc/init.d/dsl, which is an executable script. Which boot script does execute all these subscripts ?

BYE INGO

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

/sbin/rc runs it. If you look at /etc/inittab, you will see lines like:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

ikrabbe · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 10:22 pm Post subject: Found the ERROR !

Uhhh, oooh, I think that was my fault.

I simply had an extra blank line on top of the dsl script, that caused the #!/sbin/runscript interpreter pipe wasn't started, when calling directly "/etc/init.d/dsl start".

Now it works, but I strongly recommend to overthink the net.ppp0 script, since it overwrites pap and chap secrets. Thats completly unwanted !!! I have an ISDN and a DSL route over ppp so I cannot work with a service the overwrites common used password files. This isn't nice at all. :!:

Thanks for audience,

BYE INGO

rac · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 10:25 pm Post subject: Re: Found the ERROR !

Glad it's working for you now.