From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 10 18: 7:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pc89225.stofanet.dk (pc89225.stofanet.dk [212.10.22.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F68C37B718 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 18:07:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from morten@hotpost.dk) Received: (qmail 50237 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Mar 2001 02:07:15 -0000 From: morten@hotpost.dk Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 03:07:15 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: init.d and rc directories Message-ID: <20010311030715.C3147@hotpost.dk> 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 10, Mar, 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. You're confused by Linux'isms ;-) Try to get this: http://pc89225.stofanet.dk/qmail-install.tar.gz It has some *very* terse instructions on how to accomplish what you want, and I'd really apreciate feedback on it, I think it's portable across tha BSD's. Just download it, unpack it and read the INSTALL.qmail.txt file. You have probably already done some of it. HTH, HAND Morten To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message