Some init scripts disappeared?

Hi
I upgraded using pacman -Syu yesterday, then I found some init scripts(/etc/rc.d/nginx /etc/rc.d/postgresql) disappeared.
I searched about it but found nothing.

peonone wrote:I searched about it but found nothing.
Really?
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Some init script ideas

I'm packaging GNUstep... again (this time from CVS), and it requires a certain shell script to be sourced by every shell. That's easy enough for any user to do by modifying their .foorc and adding it in there, but I thought I would just throw a command in the postinstall to symlink the shell script to /etc/profile.d, so every login shell would automatically source it.
That's all fine and dandy, but xterms by default aren't login shells, so anybody using an xterm would find themselves without a working GNUstep build environment unless they set xterm to be a login shell in their .Xdefaults.
Change #1) Make xterms login shells by default in Arch's xfree86 distribution
Now that xterms are all login shells, and we can expect a user's shell to be a login shell by default, why not add scripts to profile.d for the various self-contained distributions that live in /opt (like gnome, kde, java, etc.) that automatically set up the paths for those binaries. At the moment, it appears you have to do this manually (I have not installed gnome or kde though, maybe those maintainers are doing this).
Change #2) Have packages that live in /opt add a script to profile.d setting up the paths and environment necessary to use those packages.
Thirdly, there's two daemons that need to be started for GNUstep when xfree86 starts (specifically gdnc and gpbs). Once again, this is something that can easily be done by a user editing their .Xsession, but I'd rather automate it. In the spirit of Arch's init script system, I think it would be wise to make an xinit.d directory (possibly in /etc, or more to the keeping of X's directory structure, in /etc/xinit.d), full of files that are run whenever X is started. These could be enabled and disabled in rc.conf just like init scripts in rc.d currently are.
Change #3) Add an xinit.d directory, in the spirit of rc.d and profile.d, full of items that are run whenever X is started.
Perhaps some of this has already been done, or perhaps there are other solutions. I just think these changes would be well in the spirit of Arch, and a boon to package maintainers.
Please give me your feedback either here or by mailing me at [email protected]
-- Michael Baehr

sarah31 wrote:most if not all /opt package sets have profile.d scripts. some may not think so but one has to log out then in to enable them.
Good Looks like profile.d is being used for the right purpose. I should've expected it would be :oops:
Xentac wrote:Ok... but what happens if I'm running blackbox? I probably don't want gdnc and gpbs started when I start X, it'd make me cry. How would xinit.d help with that?
I don't see why it'd make you cry. Let me explain what gdnc and gpbs are:
GNUstep Distributed Notification Center
Handles messaging and notification between GNUstep applications
GNUstep Pasteboard Server
Handles rich copy and paste between GNUstep applications
Basically, none of these would impact whatever environment you'd be running, and only GNUstep apps would use them. In fact, you wouldn't even realize they were running as they'd just be sitting in the background like the valiant daemons they are, waiting to be called into service for the holy emperor GNUstep :twisted:
And in any case, with the whole xinit.d idea, you should be able to just disable it with a ! if you don't like it
I might as well throw in my last idea, which I forgot to write before.
I've noticed people complaining about Pacman upgrades wiping their pacman.conf, which is a problem if you're using several people's TURs and other external repositories like I am. Instead, I propose doing what APT has been doing in a recent version with its new sources.list.d layout... having one directory (pacman.repo.d or something of its ilk) storing files for each repository, and enabling and disabling them in pacman.conf the way you do in rc.conf (with a bang). This would be especially nice because somebody could install a package called, for example, "pacman-TUR", and have a repo file for each TUR, and then be able to enable or disable them. This package would be updated every time a new TUR was added or one was removed, thus enabling people to easily track the latest repository happenings, while still maintaining control over what repos they use.
Just a thought.

Compiling init scripts as C

Hello!
A while back, I read that Blice (owner of http://its.alrig.ht/) had converted their init scripts to C to help the computer boot faster.
Unfortunately, Blice's site seems to have disappeared, which is a shame since I'd like to read some of the information on his webpage.
Anywho, my question is: anybody here have experience in converting startup scripts to C?
I've rewritten the apache, ssh, and postfix startup scripts so far. I've put the code up on GitHub at http://github.com/ColinJones/binary-startup
Any thoughts?

I kind of like the idea myself. I would like to help with the development.
After rethinking a bit, I don't think the hardest part to develop is the actually code, the part that is going to be challenging is the build script. I mean, if it is going to be according to my original idea, the program code itself is going to be simple but to be able to have simple program code when parsing rc.conf it means that the build script has to be a bit more complex, otherwise it will mean that the program code itself has to parse rc.conf. Well, that means if the rc.conf is going to be parsed in the first place. I think it should be parsed during build time, it will be a bit like mkinitcpio but for the initscripts but that is of course in my opinion.
One of the first thing that needs to be done is probably do a prof-of-concept of a program + build script that can depending on the content of the config file build a program with different functionality. This is pretty much to simulate the DAEMONS array. A traditional way of doing this with statically linking is to including different files with the same interfaces and in case a functionality is not going to be present, use interface functions that are empty. This pretty much works when there isn't a lot of different functionality but I think there are to many possible DAEMONS to make this practical. I think a better way is to generate a config.h (or use a different name for the file) which contains a list of functional pointers to all the "modules" that should be included. In short, make the program aware of the function and include the file that contains the function to the linker and make the complete process dynamically.
I might look in this prof-of-concept during the weekend.
Last edited by PJ (2010-01-08 18:18:09)

Script Disappearing in Acrobat 9

Hi,
I am having the problem that my Javascript keeps disappearing from the
Properties window randomly.
If I click "Add or Edit Form" and add some script to an Event, many
times it disappears. Totally random.
If I close the PDF file and open the file again, the script comes back.
If I save the PDF file after the script disappears, the script is gone
for good.
Do you guys have this problem?

Great. Thanks. I just changed it on my computer and it worked. I'll change it back now to my address. If my client wants to do it in future though, would they would need a copy of Acrobat Pro, not just Acrobat Reader? Or can you 'distribute' from Reader too? That would be great if you can, then the client can track the responses.

Init scripts

It has been a while since I last posted, but I like arch.
My question is regarding the init scripts used in arch. Specifically, three common commands used in the init scipts, and they are "stat_fail","stat_done", and "add_daemon".
Could some refer me a wiki, webpage or man page for them, and yes I see there definitions in /etc/rc.d/functions file.

For example in add_daemon:
add_daemon() {
[ -d /var/run/daemons ] || mkdir -p /var/run/daemons
touch /var/run/daemons/$1
What is the variable $1 refer to? I cannot see it defined anywhere else in the function or in the /etc/rc.d/functions script. Could it be the function referred to in which /etc/rc.d/"script" is run; "script" being whatever init service that is started and stopped, ie crond would be then touch /var/run/daemons/crond?
For what it is worth I am just trying to improve my shell scripting skills.
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Dhcpcd starting by wich init-script? [Solved]

I have static ip on both eth devices. These configured by netcfg: with if1 and if2 files in /etc/network.d/
here they are:
cat /etc/network.d/if1
CONNECTION='ethernet'
DESCRIPTION='ethernet connection to internet'
INTERFACE='eth0'
IP='static'
ADDR='10.85.231.106'
NETMASK='255.255.0.0'
GATEWAY='10.85.231.65'
DNS=('10.85.224.33')
cat /etc/network.d/if1
CONNECTION='ethernet'
DESCRIPTION='ethernet connection to localnet'
INTERFACE='eth1'
IP='static'
ADDR='192.168.225.222'
NETMASK='255.255.255.0'
But my resolve.conf sometimes is overwritten by dhcpcd.
in /etc/rc.conf I don't have any property connected with net set except HOSTNAME="ramazotty" and NETWORK_PERSIST="no"
my daemons are:
DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng network net-profiles sshd samba xinetd @cupsd dbus @netfs crond)
Who in the world is starting dhcpcd?
p.s. The parent is process 1:
>ps -f `pidof dhcpcd`
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY STAT TIME CMD
root 497 1 0 15:09 ? Ss 0:00 dhcpcd -q
Last edited by roginovicci (2012-10-26 09:16:04)

FYI you don't need the network init script when you're using netcfg.
This is not the answer you're looking for, just some useful information - unless you happen to be wrong about your rc.conf.

[SOLVED] netatalk and postfix init scripts (not systemd)

Hey, does anybody have an older version of Arch running somewhere?
I'm looking for init scripts for netatalk and postfix that I've just re-built from ABS on an outdated Arch system. However, both packages offer systemd support these days and no love for dissidents like myself.
They are probably very simple to write on one's own, but I just want to make sure I don't overlook some important trick.
If someone could possibly post those either here or on dpaste.org or whatever paste service you love, I would be a very happy person lol
Last edited by iliv (2013-12-01 14:17:00)

netatalk is in the AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/netatalk/
postfix: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … a3365f273e

Suggestion for init scripts

I like the simplified sysvinit scripts that Arch uses, but I think the file locations could be improved a bit. /etc should be reserved for configuration files only; when you put init scripts in there as well the /etc folder gets a little cluttered.
Since we already have an rc.d folder anyway that contains some of the init stuff, why not put all rc scripts, settings, and so forth in the same rc.d folder?
I'm probably not the smartest person to be talking about optimal naming conventions and file locations for the sysvinit stuff... I renamed my rc.conf to CONFIG.SYS and my rc.sysinit to AUTOEXEC.BAT

tomk wrote:Could you clarify your suggestion? All the application init scripts are already in /etc/rc.d, and the system init scripts e.g. /etc/rc.sysinit, are in standard locations. The rest of /etc consists of system-wide application configs, and their locations are determined upstream.
Also, iBertus is right.
Well, I wasn't talking about the rest of /etc - specifically the init scripts (rc.single, rc.multi, etc.) Alas, I'm unfamiliar with the bsd init process (or at least I was before this discussion). Since one of the packages we install from base is sysvinit, I *assumed* (there I go again) it was indeed a SysV init process, only modified for Arch purposes. That is, I thought y'all just arbitrarily decided to put rc.multi et al in /etc. and I was suggesting, as long as you're arbitrarily changing stuff around, why not keep all the rc. stuff together in /etc/rc.d. Now that I know you're just conforming to bsd standards, my premise (that it was an arbitrary decision) is meaningless so I withdraw the suggestion and stand corrected.
shining wrote:Seeing how much the rest of your post makes sense, I am not even sure if that's supposed to be a joke.
Wow, I should have stayed back in newbie corner where there's no such thing as a stupid question! It is a joke... and I was serious. That is, I really did rename rc.conf to config.sys and rc.sysinit to autoexec.bat, but specifically *because* it's a joke, even if I'm the only one who will ever see it. Kinda like the APPLE ][ logo I use for my Fluxbox wallpaper.
Thanks for the explanations, ibertus and tomk... I obviously have a lot to learn about Arch (and *nix in general) before I'm ready to pitch in with meaningful suggestions!

Some iCal events disappear when in week view

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