So, post-init scripts?

[David Dyer-Bennet]

I sort-of think my post-init script isn't running when the box starts. Would there normally be any log entries made indicating it ran (or how it failed), and if so what would they look like and which log would they be in? (I'm kind of expecting I'd find the script name appearing in some log file, and I don't find it in any of them.)

I can run the script manually (as root; it has things in it that require root), and the file seems to have sane protections. I browsed to the file from the dialog box for setting up the init script, so I can't really have the path wrong (and it looks right). Short of starting to add exotic "instrumentation" into my script, how do I debug this?

Also, when does "post-init" happen, and also when does pre-init happen? I'm reasonably sure this script is better run later rather than earlier, but since I'm learning this new area of FreeNAS I'd like to understand roughly when those two things happen.

 

[ethereal]

perhaps you can add something to the end of the script that creates a file and adds some text.
then you should know if it works.

 

[David Dyer-Bennet]

Yeah, that's the "instrumentation" approach I was hoping to avoid. That also requires rebooting the box; I'm hoping to find evidence of what happened *last* time I rebooted the box, if it exists, before I run around doing additional reboots (in the middle of resilver operations on a production box).

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

Would there normally be any log entries made indicating it ran

I don't think FreeNAS logs the execution of those scripts, so you would need to add your own logging.

 

[fta]

When mine run the output shows up on the console, which I think means you could view it with dmesg, although it might not be there anymore.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

Right, if there's output, that's where it goes, but the fact that it ran doesn't seem to be logged.