From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 10:48:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46A8816A4CE for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:48:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.elvandar.org (redqueen.elvandar.org [217.148.169.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFED343D3F for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:48:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 057B929542D; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:14:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.elvandar.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (redqueen.elvandar.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20929-19; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:14:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from webmail.evilcoder.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 736AB295418; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:14:33 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <57637.145.221.24.40.1096874073.squirrel@145.221.24.40> In-Reply-To: <1096872134.2641.17.camel@vaiosr7k.ozland> References: <35BF716A-14B7-11D9-9E70-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> <415F1AA5.3080001@elvandar.org> <554B282C-14BE-11D9-9E70-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> <415F26E7.1020200@elvandar.org> <1096872134.2641.17.camel@vaiosr7k.ozland> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:14:33 +0200 (CEST) From: "Remko Lodder" To: "Gary Dunn" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at elvandar.org cc: Eric Crist cc: Remko Lodder cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Starting apache at boot with SSL. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:48:28 -0000 > I chose to protect my SSL cert with a passphrase. This makes automatic > startup at boot impossible. I use FBSD 4.10, and apache would normally > start via a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.conf. I just made sure there > was ehm this is not totally true, you can startup automatically by havnig a little script that does the following #!/bin/sh echo '' Then there is thingy with the phrase 'builtin' into it. You can change that so that the previous bin sh script gets invoked and the server will startup at that point. For the correct syntax i would need to look into my own configuration which i cannot access at this moment. > no .sh script for apache, and start it myself using apachectl startssl. > The problem with this setup is that if the server reboots in the middle > of the night the web server does not come on, but this almost never > happens anyway. You have to balance security with convenience to fit > your situation, and I chose security. > > > Cheers! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |remko@elvandar.org Reporter DSINet |remko@dsinet.org Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |remko@mostly-harmless.nl Founder Tienervaders |remko@tienervaders.org