Launchd not starting lighttpd - startupitem.requires

[Sterling Anderson]

This suggestion seems to have done the trick. Thanks for your help.


On Jun 21, 2007, at 11:50 AM, James Berry wrote:

>
> On Jun 21, 2007, at 7:24 AM, Sterling Anderson wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 21, 2007, at 1:33 AM, markd at macports.org wrote:
>>
>>> Sterling Anderson <sterling_anderson at mac.com> on Wednesday, June  
>>> 20, 2007
>>> at 8:38 PM -0800 wrote:
>>>> Nothing in the console at all. I am stumped. No error messages at
>>>> all. The wrapper has the correct syntax. Manually loading and
>>>> unloading the launchd file works properly. I just don't get why  
>>>> it's
>>>> not working on boot.
>>>
>>> Ah, then it must be a timinig issue.  I just found an feature  
>>> that isn't
>>> documented in the manpage: startupitem.requires.  Theoretically  
>>> that could
>>> be used to delay execution until some other functions are  
>>> started.  See
>>> the radmind portfile for an example.  However, 10.3 also had that  
>>> keyword
>>> for the systemstarter, but I never had any luck with that.  I  
>>> ended up
>>> using a start script with a sleep command in it.  See the Snort  
>>> port.  But
>>> I didn't know about startupitem.requires on 10.4 so I didn't try  
>>> that.  I
>>> will sometime.  Try editing the portfile and using  
>>> startup.requires as the
>>> radmind port does and let us know if it works.
>>
>> Added the startupitem.requires to the Portfile and reinstalled. No  
>> dice. I'm very confused.
>
> Hi Sterling,
>
> startupitem.requires takes effect only for SystemStarter items, not  
> for launchd.
>
> Here's what I'd try:
>
>> On Apr 9, 2007, at 10:22 AM, James Berry wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Alex,
>>>
>>> You might try adding the option "--restart-netchange" to the  
>>> daemondo invocation in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ 
>>> org.macports.bind9.plist:
>>>
>>> 		<string>--restart-netchange</string>
>>>
>>> This should cause daemondo to restart bind if the ip address  
>>> changes, which is probably occurring after bind gets running.
>>>
>
> This doesn't prevent lighttpd from starting, but it does restart it  
> when the network configuration changes, probably sometime after it  
> first starts up.
>
> Let me know if this works for you. That string line should follow  
> the --label line, for instance.
>
> James

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