From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 27 6:31:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 408E937B401 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 06:31:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 64053 invoked by uid 100); 27 Jul 2001 13:31:46 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15201.27970.497488.274462@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:31:46 -0500 To: Jonathan Hilgeman Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: mySQL Startup In-Reply-To: <104704742@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" 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 List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Hilgeman types: > I renamed /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql.server to > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql.server.sh and it works. I guess FreeBSD needs the > .sh extension to recognize it as a script... Please don't to post. FreeBSD doesn't care about the extensions. The rc.d software cares. - Jonathan > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jonathan Hilgeman > > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:52 AM > > To: 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG' > > Subject: mySQL Startup > > > > 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. > > > > - Jonathan > -- Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message