From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 12:13:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojo.virtualservice.com (mojo.virtualservice.com [207.164.49.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B8D37B9A4 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 12:13:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@virtualservice.com) Received: from virtualservice.com (procyon.wiredsolutions.com [207.164.49.241]) by mojo.virtualservice.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA11790 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:08:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3974AE27.38144CBF@virtualservice.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:21:11 -0400 From: Matt Gostick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: mpc.lists.freebsd.questions,muc.lists.freebsd.questions To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: don't understand the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory References: <39749B4A.41A24A69@miltonstreet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sam Carleton wrote: > > I have installed MySQL from the FreeBSD distribution and it placed the > startup files in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. MySQL does NOT start > automatically, though. Where is some documentation as to under how to > get things started at bootup, and equally important how to get things > shutdown when rebooting. > > Sam > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message When booting it runs any scripts in that dir with the param of 'start' and when shutting down it does the same with param 'stop'. The MySQL scripts work fine for me... never had a problem. Perhaps the permissions are incorrect? What happens if you run the scripts manually? My ls -la: drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 12 16:46 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 1024 Jul 12 21:11 .. -rwx------ 1 root wheel 51 Jun 19 14:00 mysql-client.sh -rwx------ 1 root wheel 133 Jun 19 14:09 mysql-server.sh -- Matt Gostick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message