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I have a python program which I wrote and would like to run on startup in FreeBSD 7.1.
For my current installation, the script lives at
/home/devuser/project/trunk/src/proj. At the beginning of my main in proj I have added (for testing)
os.system("echo 'proj STARTED' >> /tmp/projlog")
In /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ I have ‘proj’ which contains:
#!/bin/sh
# PROVIDE: proj
# REQUIRE: DAEMON LOGIN
# KEYWORD: shutdown
. "/etc/rc.subr"$location="/home/devuser/project/trunk/src"name="proj"
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
command="$location/$name"
command_args="$1"
command_interpreter="python"load_rc_config $name
echo "trying to run proj" >> /tmp/rclog
run_rc_command "$1"
In my rc.conf:
rc_debug="YES"
proj_enable="YES"
If I run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/proj <start|stop|status> as root everything works as expected – proj runs, trying to run proj appears in /tmp/rclog, and proj STARTED appears in /tmp/projlog.
On system startup, I get trying to run proj in /tmp/rclog, but nothing in /tmp/projlog – python isn’t being started.
Why is the rc script running but failing to actually invoke Python, and not giving me any feedback?
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I’m guessing /usr/local/bin (or wherever the python binary resides in FreeBSD) doesn’t exist in $PATH when running init scripts.
Try changing command_interpreter="python" to command_interpreter="/usr/local/bin/python".
Also, does the your file contain a shebang (with a correct path) and is executable?
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