Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 04:45:53 -0900 From: Andy Firman <andy@firman.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d vs /etc/rc.conf question Message-ID: <20041218134553.GA24368@akroteq.com> In-Reply-To: <20041202210019.GA23230@lb.tenfour> References: <20041202163900.GA14829@akroteq.com> <A62E611EBDA3E55081ACC696@utd49554.utdallas.edu> <20041202210019.GA23230@lb.tenfour>
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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:00:19PM +0000, Dick Davies wrote: > * Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> [1210 17:10]: > > --On Thursday, December 02, 2004 07:39:00 AM -0900 Andy Firman > > <andy@firman.us> wrote: > > > > > > > >I just took over a FreeBSD box and there is a > > >proftpd.sh script in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory. > > > > > >There is also this entry in /etc/rc.conf: > > >proftpd_enable="YES" > > > > > >There is no need for entries in /etc/rc.conf > > >if the script exists in /usr/local/etc/rc.d right? > > > > > If you remove the /etc/rc.conf entry, you can still start the daemon > > manually (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/proftpd.sh start), but it will not start on > > boot. > > No, that still won't work (which makes sense if you think about it, how would the > script know whether the system is booting or not?). > > If you read the link below, you should see that you need > to 'scriptname forcestart' etc if there is no service=YES in rc.conf. > Similarly 'forcestop' to shut it down. > > > <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcng.html>; That is "Using rc under FreeBSD 5.X" but what about 4.10? On my 4.10 box, there is a mysql-server script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and nothing in /etc/rc.conf, yet mysql-server starts up a boot time. Why? There is nothing wrong, I just want to know why.
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