From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 22:37:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom1-108.telepath.com [216.14.1.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED25837BB53 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 22:37:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 13493 invoked by uid 100); 19 Jul 2000 05:36:46 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14709.15982.905218.753646@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 00:36:46 -0500 (CDT) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re; don't understand the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Sam Carleton > > 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. First, check to see if other things in /usr/local/etc/rc.d are being run. If so, then the problem is probably the name/permissions stuff that others have pointed out. If there's nothing else there - or none of it is being run - check /etc/make.conf to see if you're changing the local_startup setting. If you're not changing it, make sure that /usr/local/etc/rc.d is in it in /etc/defaults/make.conf.