Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:50:56 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: short Q Message-ID: <20071127055051.726E.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <2854bfb4a1bd36877e398b36f610daf5@prodigy.net> References: <20071126055614.5FD1.GERARD@seibercom.net> <2854bfb4a1bd36877e398b36f610daf5@prodigy.net>
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> On November 26, 2007 at 07:53PM jekillen wrote: > > Did you install this from ports? If so. the script would have been > > placed > > there all ready. > Yes, that is what provoked the original question. I had built and > installed > from source tarball in the past. But one machine was always a problem. > Once I did install from ports I was lacking info. The startup script > was not > in /etc/rc.d (although I have subsequently got into on > /usr/local/etc/rc.d) That is where it belongs! > I had followed instructions from MySQL documentation and put the script > they supplied in /etc/rc.d; mysql.server, but for some reason the script > did not actually start MyQSL. But the systems seems to look for some > thing with mysql in the name and runs it if it is in /etc/rc.d. That is > how > I figured out what to do. (or maybe the system will try to run anything > that is in /etc/rc.d if there is a corresponding enable line in rc.conf > it > understands). The academic question is, is the program that runs the > startup routine, itself a script or is it a binary? > Thanks If you are referring to the script in '/usr/local/etc/rc.d', it is just a plain script. You can edit it. Is there a specific reason you installed from a tarball rather than use the ports system? I have always installed MySQL from ports without any problems. -- Gerard
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