Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:14:50 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for holes in the docs to fill in Message-ID: <20030613141450.GA12355@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <3EE9D11C.1040008@potentialtech.com> References: <3EE8C1F4.7000800@potentialtech.com> <20030613091355.GB9626@submonkey.net> <3EE9D11C.1040008@potentialtech.com>
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:26:52AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> Ceri Davies wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:09:56PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> >>One thing I feel is missing is a basic admin tutorial for newbies. I
> >>mean,
> >>the handbook covers installing and getting everything up and running, but
> >>once you're there you're lost. A lot of Linux folks seem to get lost
> >>(for example) figuring out how to get Apache to start automatically after
> >>it's installed. I'm guessing an explanation in the ports section of the
> >>handbook would help, what do others think?
> >
> >That's done by the port, isn't it?
>
> Most ports these days install a sample script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> (although this doesn't seem to be 100% consistent) The apache.sh.sample must
> be renamed before it'll do anything at boot.
>
> If you're new to FreeBSD, this can be annoying and the documentation on how
> to handle this doesn't seem to jump out from anywhere. The ports section of
> the handbook doesn't mention it. I've got an update to the handbook I'm
> going to submit some time today that I think will improve this. I've heard of
> lots of people putting 'apachectl start' in their rc.conf file because they
> couldn't figure out the proper way to do this.
OK, sounds good.
Thanks,
Ceri
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