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Date:      Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:49:16 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Unix Newbie <unix_newbie@earthlink.net>
Cc:        "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: adding a service at start up
Message-ID:  <20020408124916.GB19881@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <1018081144.9076.6.camel@debian>
References:  <200204071508.46778@.perimeter.co.za> <1018074829.9076.2.camel@debian> <005701c1decb$de595b90$b50d030a@PATRICK> <1018081144.9076.6.camel@debian>

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On 2002-04-06 00:18, Unix Newbie wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 00:06, Patrick O'Reilly wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Unix Newbie" <unix_newbie@earthlink.net>
> >
> > This surprises me!  There should be a directory named
> > /usr/local/etc/rc.d , and your startup script will be a file within that
> > directory.  Try this when logged in as root:
> > # mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> > # chmod 755 /usr/local/etc/rc.d
>
> No, after looking at the path name I realized I was just being dumb. I
> was looking in the /etc folder! There is a folder in /usr/local/etc and
> my shell scripts runs perfectly with the right permisions on it!
> Everything works great!

Sometimes a friendly push can help a lot.

You're not dumb.  Not asking why something doesn't work as expected
and then believing that for some "magical" reason FreeBSD hates you,
would be dumb indeed :)

- Giorgos


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