From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jun 21 6:26:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.carolina.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA69137B406 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 06:26:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus ([24.88.142.121]) by mail6.carolina.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:26:41 -0400 From: "William McKee" To: doc@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:27:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Suggestion - FreeBSD Handbook 6.5: Starting Services Message-ID: <3D12F170.13308.574CFA1@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I'm a new user of FreeBSD and was reading through your excellent handbook on the website. Thanks for putting together such a simple, useful resource. In reading about starting services under FreeBSD, I was intrigued by the concept of using cron to start system services. I had never considered that option. However, you do not mention any problems or solutions for how to stop these services during system shutdown. The standard rc.d script approach supports this capability and seems to me a safer way to run system services such as web servers and databases. It would be helpful to make mention of this limitation in the cron approach (if it is indeed a problem) and offer any possible workarounds. Thanks, William -- Lead Developer Knowmad Services Inc. || Internet Applications & Database Integration http://www.knowmad.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message