From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 3 10:09:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA06318 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 10:09:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tm.net.my (janeway.tm.net.my [202.188.0.155]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA06311 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 10:09:33 -0800 (PST) From: sweeting@tm.net.my Received: from [202.184.153.110] ([202.184.153.110]) by mail.tm.net.my (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id CAA11207 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 02:07:14 +0800 (SGT) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 02:07:14 +0800 (SGT) X-Sender: sweeting@mail.tm.net.my Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is httpd launched from? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >At 12:04 03.04.97 +0000, you wrote: >>I'm sure it's right in front of me, but where does Apache's httpd >>start from? I can't find it.... > >I like to start it from /etc/rc.local - perhaps you will find yours there too? > Examining /etc/sysconfig shows that it looks in /usr/local/sbin/rc.d That is where we found the shell script : apache.sh which is basically invoking /usr/local/sbin/httpd in our case, we didn't want Apache launching atomatically and removed the script apache.sh from /usr/local/sbin/rc.d hth chas ps. put your own scripts and start up commands in rc.local