From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 2 21:21:47 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1626A106564A for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 21:21:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gobble.wa@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D58A98FC08 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 21:21:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iaeo4 with SMTP id o4so5708644iae.13 for ; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:21:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=90qKh+BRb1qW8bxlLR7RLv4ucUjRgw8wY+ZxtPfOQ7g=; b=aZrPFhVdV52Gzv2NymFFbfIVVts+UE27k8H/0Fu5PH13Xp8tltO4BGR8ncdDSpcXbo uuPbKpd2tnxO5WY01z/0+ntmqkX18XidzdAAzyBreHED33ErDPNlUwfemf/hi06zt6P9 KQK4ZXue+GLNez+65E3SfZxQP2xjGQI9DhVdQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.184.233 with SMTP id ex9mr5241899igc.23.1328217701492; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:21:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.231.69.210 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:21:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.231.69.210 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:21:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:21:41 -0800 Message-ID: From: Waitman Gobble To: Chris Maness Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Slackware: Starting Servers at Boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:21:47 -0000 On Feb 2, 2012 1:09 PM, "Chris Maness" wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Waitman Gobble wrote: > > > > On Feb 2, 2012 12:22 PM, "Chris Maness" wrote: > >> > >> I have been using FreeBSD for so long I forgot how to configure > >> services and startup. I now also have a Slack box. What file do I > >> edit to so that services like named start automagically? I am aware > >> lines can be uncommented in inetd.conf, but I want the service running > >> without spawning from inetd. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Chris Maness > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to > >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > hmm never tried slackware GNU/Linux but maybe > > ntsysv > > works? > > After more searching it turns out that all that one needs to do is > make the rc.bind executable in the rc.d directory. Wow, that is as > straight forward as it comes. > > Chris might be dated info but GNU/Linux usually has sep directory for each run level, so you can have one "without X" for example. pretty sure ntsysv is a front end to rc directories with toggle on-off executable bit