From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 27 10:50:40 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 175C916A474 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:50:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E118213C44B for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:50:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so863242rvb for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:50:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.26.6 with SMTP id d6mr1771758rvj.1196160639364; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:50:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.102? ( [67.189.206.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 31sm2166052wri.2007.11.27.02.50.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:50:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:50:56 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: Seibercom.net In-Reply-To: <2854bfb4a1bd36877e398b36f610daf5@prodigy.net> References: <20071126055614.5FD1.GERARD@seibercom.net> <2854bfb4a1bd36877e398b36f610daf5@prodigy.net> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20071127055051.726E.GERARD@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.42 [en] Subject: Re: short Q X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:50:40 -0000 > On November 26, 2007 at 07:53PM jekillen wrote: > > Did you install this from ports? If so. the script would have been > > placed > > there all ready. > Yes, that is what provoked the original question. I had built and > installed > from source tarball in the past. But one machine was always a problem. > Once I did install from ports I was lacking info. The startup script > was not > in /etc/rc.d (although I have subsequently got into on > /usr/local/etc/rc.d) That is where it belongs! > I had followed instructions from MySQL documentation and put the script > they supplied in /etc/rc.d; mysql.server, but for some reason the script > did not actually start MyQSL. But the systems seems to look for some > thing with mysql in the name and runs it if it is in /etc/rc.d. That is > how > I figured out what to do. (or maybe the system will try to run anything > that is in /etc/rc.d if there is a corresponding enable line in rc.conf > it > understands). The academic question is, is the program that runs the > startup routine, itself a script or is it a binary? > Thanks If you are referring to the script in '/usr/local/etc/rc.d', it is just a plain script. You can edit it. Is there a specific reason you installed from a tarball rather than use the ports system? I have always installed MySQL from ports without any problems. -- Gerard