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On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 08:34:22AM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Other BSDs have the rc.d concept, but it is often kind of kludgy,=20
> particularly when some servers come from the ports collection. Does=20
> FreeBSD have a generic way to shutdown and restart servers such as=20
> named and sendmail and apache?

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/, usally ports put there startup/shutdown
scripts into that directory (pgsql for instance). you could also
use rc.local but see the man page for more detailed information.

see man rc(8).

toni
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