Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:05:37 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> To: Eric Lam <ecrim@earthlink.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting Daemons Message-ID: <20010815150536.A17588@comp04.prc.uic.edu> In-Reply-To: <NFBBLKKCLDGIJGPDMDAAMEBPCAAA.ecrim@earthlink.net>; from ecrim@earthlink.net on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:07:10AM %2B0100 References: <NFBBLKKCLDGIJGPDMDAAMEBPCAAA.ecrim@earthlink.net>
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> What is the recommended way of starting a daemon, such as httpd, > smbd, ftpd, etc... inet.conf? rc.d script thingiees, or rc.local? Start them through /etc/inetd.conf (or some super-server other than inetd) if it's practical. An example of where this is not practical would be a busy web server; the creation of a new process for every connection would be unacceptable. Otherwise, put a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that has the executable bit set and understands at least a ``start'' argument. See rc(8). Many daemons have two modes, one for startup via a super-server, and one for startup standalone (via an rc.d script). Note that rc.local is (essentially) deprecated in favor of rc.d scripts. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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