From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 11: 0:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ipass.one.net (news2.one.net [206.112.192.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13DB637B5F5 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 11:00:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scarleton@miltonstreet.com) Received: from miltonstreet.com (ws11.syner.com [63.84.188.11] (may be forged)) by ipass.one.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA11112 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:00:19 -0400 Message-ID: <39749B4A.41A24A69@miltonstreet.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:00:42 -0400 From: Sam Carleton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: don't understand the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have installed MySQL from the FreeBSD distribution and it placed the startup files in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. MySQL does NOT start automatically, though. Where is some documentation as to under how to get things started at bootup, and equally important how to get things shutdown when rebooting. Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message