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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 07:50:13 -0400
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To: Dan Fairs <danfairs@yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Custom configures
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Dan Fairs wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Prompted by an earlier email, I'm curious as to what
> the 'standard' is for starting services in FreeBSD.
> For example, I have manually downloaded and compiled
> apache from source, without using the ports
> collection, as I required
> apache+mod_ssl+php4+mod_perl. This was easy enough to
> configure and compile, but... in what file would be
> the 'correct' place to run the apachectl startssl
> command? /etc/rc.network? How does the /etc/rc.d/
> directory (which mysteriously appeared a few days ago
> on my system! - presumably as part of a pkg_add) fit
> in?
> 
> I've just got my head around the way Linux does
> things, so what's FreeBSD's take on startup?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Dan
> 
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Read /etc/rc, you'll note that by default, /etc/rc.local, and any .sh
file located in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ are run at startup, your preference
as to which you want to use  I guess.

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