From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 13 08:26:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 630D837B401 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:26:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scanmail2.cableone.net (scanmail2.cableone.net [24.116.0.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B295D43FAF for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:26:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spooky@cableone.net) Received: from scanmail2.cableone.net ([10.116.0.122]) by scanmail2.cableone.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:26:51 -0700 Received: from scanmail2.cableone.net [24.116.0.122] by scanmail2.cableone.net (SMTPD32-7.04) id AD3BC6150192; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:26:51 -0700 Received: from 192.168.0.118 (24-117-75-72.cpe.cableone.net [24.117.75.72]) by mail.cableone.net with SMTP (MailShield v2.04 - WIN32 Jul 17 2001 17:12:42); Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:26:51 -0600 From: Ken Thompson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:26:45 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306130926.45424.spooky@cableone.net> X-SMTP-HELO: 192.168.0.118 X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: spooky@cableone.net X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: 24-117-75-72.cpe.cableone.net [24.117.75.72] Subject: RE-Startup Files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:26:48 -0000 On Sunday 08 June 2003 03:35 pm, you wrote: > On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 03:10:13PM -0600, Ken Thompson wrote: > > Where do I put things to load during boot, things like loading modules > > and starting kdm?? Poked about some and am working my way through the > > complete bsd #3 as well as the "book" which I downloaded, but I haven't > > found reference to the above, yet.. > > Thanks to all in advance. > > things you install from the ports or through packages get started from > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ . Things in the base system get configured to start > in /etc/rc.conf and ge tstarted by scripts in /etc/rc.d (for 5.0 and > later). kdm gets started through /etc/ttys (I think... maybe there is also > a different method). Modules can be loaded from /boot/loader.conf. > > hope that helps, t. I sure did.. Still having some problems though. Reading the help/readme for /boot/loader.conf, I took it as being able to put "load snd_sb16" (without the quotes) in and it would load the sb16 module at bootup - tried load snd_sb16 and just snd_sb16 and neither one would load the module.. It loads OK using kldload snd_sb16 from a root term. What am I doing wrong? I added a line for ttys9 to /etc/ttys to start kdm but am still getting xdm started too, I did comment out the line for ttys8 where the xdm stuff is.. Doesn't that file recognize the "#" as a comment or is there another way to do it?? Thanks again for the help, -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: olcarman@yahoo.com Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936