Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:18:31 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: starting services? Message-ID: <20051121131550.1A4E.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20051121130819.0be55b9a.lists@interpool.ca> References: <fb6605670511210832r1cfb2dadpadb647fb99c39370@mail.gmail.com> <20051121130819.0be55b9a.lists@interpool.ca>
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On Monday, November 21, 2005 1:08:19 PM, Gerry Freymann <lists@interpool.ca= > Subject: Re: starting services? Wrote these words of wisdom: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:32:29 -0500 > "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote: >=20 > >On 11/17/05, Gerry Freymann <lists@interpool.ca> wrote: > >> If you manually want to do this, you *must* use the full path to the > >> script: > >> > >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba.sh start | stop > > > >In the rc(8) manpage, it states that .sh scripts are sourced directly. > > > > 4. Call each script in turn using run_rc_script() (from > > rc.subr(8)), > > which sets $1 to ``start'', and sources the script in a > > subshell. If the script has a .sh suffix then it is sourced > > directly into the current shell. > > > >Why is that? I've found that running apache.sh directly with > >start|stop doesn't work. I need to run apachectl. >=20 > In order to manually call up apache.sh in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d > directory, you have to use the full path to the script. >=20 > If you: >=20 > cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d > ./apache.sh start >=20 > it should complain and error out.=20 >=20 > but if you did: >=20 > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh start >=20 > things should go as planned. >=20 > That's, at least, if you wanna do it manually (to either stop or start a > service that has a shell script in there). >=20 > -gerry ***** REPLY SEPARATOR ***** On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: I have apache2 installed and have no problem with: =2E/apache2.sh start Obviously, I have to run it as root. --=20 Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net "I'm not afraid of flying...I'm afraid of being at 35,000 feet and suddenly *not* flying." Koren
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