freebsd stable - Mar 2006 - /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts not starting after update to -stable, also /etc/rc.d syntax error

Hi,

Yesterday I updated to -stable.  I think that I did a decent job merging the
/etc files and configuring
rc.conf but I am getting some errors.

First, the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d are not starting.  I do have the
following line in rc.conf:

local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d"

The syntax error reported on bootup is:

/etc/rc.d/Makefile: 44: Syntax error: "(" unexpected.

Perhaps that error is what is causing the local startup scripts not to execute.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Rob Lytle

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On 3/8/06, Rob <rob@roblytle.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday I updated to -stable.  I think that I did a decent job merging
the /etc files and configuring
> rc.conf but I am getting some errors.
>
> /etc/rc.d/Makefile: 44: Syntax error: "(" unexpected.
>
> Perhaps that error is what is causing the local startup scripts not to
execute.
>
It looks like you did:

cp /usr/src/etc/rc.d/* /etc/rc.d/

This copied some extra files into your /etc/rc.d/ directory that are
not needed.  Just remove /etc/rc.d/Makefile, and that should fix the
Syntax error.  Then run mergemaster.  When mergemaster gets to
checking the files in the /etc/rc.d/ directory, it may show that
somefiles in that directory are not needed.  Either let mergemaster
delete all of these unneeded files, or make a note of them and
manually remove the ones you don't need.

NOTE: if you have custom scripts in /etc/rc.d, you may want to manully
remove the unneeded files.

Scot
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