Re: dhcp-server and init scripts

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2012-12-03 12:01, r10kindsofpeople wrote:
> I seem to have figured out how to add the dhcp-server to my image, including my own dhcpd.conf and default-server files by creating a "dhcp_4.2.4-P1.bbappend" recipe.  Everything
> works, except the dhcp-server doesn't run on boot.
>
> If I login and run "update-rc.d dhcp-server defaults" on the target, then it creates the entries in /etc/rc0.d (etc) and the service starts on the next boot.
>
> The question is, how can I get bitbake to create those entries when it creates the image?  I'm open to completely different ways of going about this as well.  Looking at other
> recipes, I thought this recipe would do, but it doesn't:
>
> {named dhcp_4.2.4-P1.bbappend}
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/${PN}:"
>
> inherit update-rc.d
>
> INITSCRIPT_NAME = "dhcp-server"
> INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "defaults"
>
> # Not sure this is needed, since I'm not adding files, just replacing the default copies
> SRC_URI += "file://dhcpd.conf \
>                       file://default-server \
>                       "
> {end file}
>
> I'm using the 8.0 "danny" release with Crown-bay BSP.  The "layer.conf" file includes IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " dhcp-server" (among other things).
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer,

You just missed one piece.  I have this working using these extra lines in my .bbappend:

inherit update-rc.d
INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES = "dhcp-server"
INITSCRIPT_NAME = "dhcp-server"
INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 50 S . stop 50 0 6 1 ."

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