Running perl scripts from rc.d under FreeBSD
If you have even tried to run a perl script under FreeBSD’s startup system rc.d then you’ll have hit upon a little problem where it doesnt correctly recognise the running process on shutdown. There’s a simple fix for this just apply the patch below and you’ll be good to go.
--- /etc/rc.subr.orig Mon Oct 8 18:31:34 2007
+++ /etc/rc.subr Mon Oct 8 18:32:31 2007
@@ -271,5 +271,5 @@
_fp_args='_argv'
_fp_match='case "$_argv" in
- ${_interp}|"${_interp} "*|"${_interpbn}: ${_procname}"*)'
+ ${_interp}|"${_interp} "*|"[${_interpbn}]"|"${_interpbn}: ${_procname}"*)'
else # a normal daemon
_procnamebn=${_procname##*/} |
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