[gentoo-user] Service not started at specified runlevel

[João Miguel]

Hello,

I am not using Gentoo, but if I ask this on the Arch Linux mailing lists
I may get flamed, get no response, or both. I'm using OpenRC version
0.16.4, along with the audit init script from Gentoo (I'm attaching it
anyway for future reference). Note: I added the depend() function
(trying various dependencies) hoping it would have an effect on the
service being started at the specified runlevel (it didn't).

Here's my problem:
 # ls /etc/runlevels/default/auditd 
/etc/runlevels/default/auditd
 # rc-service auditd start ; echo $?
auditd           | * Starting auditd ...
auditd           | * start-stop-daemon: fopen `/var/run/auditd.pid': No such file or directory
auditd           | * Detaching to start `/sbin/auditd' ...                                                                                                         [ ok ]
auditd           | * Loading audit rules from /etc/audit/audit.rules
0
 # rc-status -s | grep audit ; echo $?
1

I have no idea of why it complains that file does not exist when running
/sbin/auditd manually creates it right away. auditd works normally when
started with the init script, but although I did 'rc-update add auditd
default', it simply does not start when that runlevel is reached. dhcpcd
and a few other services complain of the pid file not existing too and
start at their runlevels. I think the warning is unrelated, openrc is
likely checking for the PID files' existance too soon.

Also, I'm using rc_parallel="YES", but have tried with "NO" and get the
same result (i.e. no evidence of auditd even existing).

I don't get it, I've created my own init script for other services, and
those show up on rc-status, if I add them to some runlevel, no matter
whether they fail, throw warnings, or start normally, they appear both
at boot and I can check later in /var/log/rc.log. The only abnormal
service is auditd. What is going on? Did I do something wrong? 

Thank you in advance,
João Miguel