From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 10 18: 6:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB4F37B719 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 18:06:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com) Received: from rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com ([216.196.73.168]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sat, 10 Mar 2001 18:04:44 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2B26oY83803; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 18:06:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 18:06:49 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "G. Jason Middleton" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: init.d and rc directories Message-ID: <20010310180649.G50418@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 06:06:10PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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