From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 5:49:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B9F437B419 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 05:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a156.otenet.gr [212.205.215.156]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g38CmvXV006943; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:48:58 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g38CnHGI020282; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:49:17 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g38CnHKF020277; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:49:17 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:49:16 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Unix Newbie Cc: "Patrick O'Reilly" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding a service at start up Message-ID: <20020408124916.GB19881@hades.hell.gr> References: <200204071508.46778@.perimeter.co.za> <1018074829.9076.2.camel@debian> <005701c1decb$de595b90$b50d030a@PATRICK> <1018081144.9076.6.camel@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1018081144.9076.6.camel@debian> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" > > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message