Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 18:06:49 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: "G. Jason Middleton" <gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: init.d and rc directories Message-ID: <20010310180649.G50418@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.0103101800350.3440144-100000@irix2.gl.umbc.edu>; from gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 06:06:10PM -0500 References: <Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.0103101800350.3440144-100000@irix2.gl.umbc.edu>
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On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 06:06:10PM -0500, G. Jason Middleton wrote: > well ladies and gentlemen i am installing qmail and following the > directions on qmail.orgs home page "life with Qmail" > > I have it installed and i am at the point where i need to create a startup > script and it says to install it into my "init.d" directory. However i > have no init.d directory! After that it also wants me to create links > using ln to my rc directories...but i cannot find them either! I have > looked all over..../etc/ etc etc. /etc/init.d is a System V-ism as opposed a BSD-ism. On FreeBSD, you want to drop the script in, /usr/local/etc/rc.d And make sure it has a '.sh' extension. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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