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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

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