From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 12:42:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E14B037B403 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:42:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trini0@optonline.net) Received: from optonline.net (ool-18be012f.dyn.optonline.net [24.190.1.47]) by mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built Dec 14 2000)) with ESMTP id <0GH1002KDO2GVV@mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:42:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:42:18 -0400 From: Gerard Samuel Subject: Re: mySQL Startup To: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: <3B5F211A.2070809@optonline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010719 References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Go to the ports collection and install it from there. It like magic you see, it installs the startup script for you... ;) >>Hi, >>I was reading through the docs for mySQL source install, and I've finished >>installing the sucker, but I need to get it to start up when booting up. I >>keep seeing instructions to copy support-files/mysql.server to /etc/init.d >>and then link /etc/rc3.d/s99mysql to it, as well as /etc/rc2.d/s01mysql >> >>The problem is, I'm running FreeBSD 4.2, and I don't seem to have >>/etc/init.d, nor /etc/rc3.d, nor /etc/rc2.d. My startup directory is >>/usr/local/etc/rc.d and contains apache.sh and mysql-client.sh, and that's >>all. I don't have these other directories. Do I need to add them, and add >>them to the startup list..., or can I do this differently? I tried copying >>mysql.server just into /usr/local/etc/rc.d , but it doesn't start the >>server. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message