Re: wpa_supplicant rc.conf config silently failing

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <CAJeAr6vYOggfS=EbZj3gfTW6O6h4ebDB1p=b+LH8J8M+apMOeA%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
Andrew Cagney  <andrew.cagney%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I was enabling wpa supplcant so added these lines:
>
>        wpa_supplicant=YES
>        wpa_supplicant_flags="-c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -i run0"
>
>and tested it using:
>
>        /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant start
>
>and all seemed to work (well, after I fixed my .conf file :-), but
>then I rebooted:
>
>        Nothing.  Silence.
>
>So I login and start it manually and again it works.  While I tracked
>it down to needing:
>
>        critical_filesystems_local="/var /usr"
>
>(if I'd used sysinstall I'm assuming that would have been set
>automatically) I think the real problem is with rc.subr and:
>
>                start)
>                        : ...
>                        if [ ! -x ${_chroot}${command} ]; then
>                                return 0
>                        fi
>
>If the command is enabled, yet the required executable doesn't exist,
>then issuing some sort of message would be helpful.  That way, what is
>otherwise a correct and enabled configuration doesn't silently fail
>during boot.

Yes, I think that it should print an error.

christos