From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 15 12:46:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E1F616A41F for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:46:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F38643D69 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:46:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (212.181.162.201) by pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 4378EBDA0004515E for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:46:01 +0100 Received: (qmail 56548 invoked by uid 1001); 15 Nov 2005 13:46:00 +0100 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:46:00 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Gerard Seibert Message-ID: <20051115124600.GA56424@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Gerard Seibert , FreeBSD Questions References: <20051115072033.E79732@seibercom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051115072033.E79732@seibercom.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Unknown Program 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: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:46:08 -0000 On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:28:05AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 5.4 presently. In my /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory, I > have come across this file: '001slpd.sh'. I cannot seem to find out what > it does or how it got there. It does not appear to be running; however, > employing the 'status' switch produces nothing. > > I have tried using help, info and man without success. Perhaps someone can > enlighten me as to this programs purpose. That shell script is most likely installed via the net/openslp port - at least that is the case on my system. If you have not installed net/openslp manually it probably got installed automatically because some other port/package depended on it. One of the ports that depends on it is x11/kde3 which I would guess is where you got it from. Like most scripts in etc/rc.d its purpose is to start one or more services running - in this case the slpd daemon. It only actually starts slpd if you have the line spld_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf For more information about the etc/rc.d directory and its contents you could read the rc(8) manpage. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se