From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 20 08:18:07 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA16506 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:18:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chopin.seattleu.edu (chopin.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA16498 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:18:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu ([172.17.41.90]) by chopin.seattleu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA26357; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:16:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36A60173.48CFBCCA@seattleu.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:16:51 -0800 From: Eric Hodel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: A.Flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk CC: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: New installation - some points and a problem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > May I ask two minor supplementary questions please? Sure, but please send any questions to the list first, then they can be dealt with fastest > - if there's an unattended reboot, e.g after a power outage, how can > one be sure it will reboot freebsd rather than DOS? Does the boot > manager default to always rebooting the same OS that was most recently > rebooted? The default boot manager defaults to the previously booted OS. OS-BS defaults to a user-specified choice and has timeout options, etc. > - I want to set it up for terminal access via ssh. On our normal unix > hosts (OSF/1), sshd is started from a symlink in /sbin/rc3.d/S66sshd . > If I'm understanding this correctly, the place to configure a similar > thing in freebsd would be /usr/local/etc/rc.d ? > > A search at the freebsd site produced this > http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ116.html > which referred to local startup in /usr/local/etc/rc.local.d > > But when I look in the actual /etc/rc.conf, it looks more as if > it's expecting to find /usr/local/etc/rc.d > > Obviously I can botch it in somehow, but it would be nicer to do it > in the "approved" way. I believe the approved way is putting a shell script into /usr/local/etc/rc.d in order to run daemons on bootup. I for example am running samba out of /usr/local/etc/rc.d, as that is where the installation defaulted to. > I'm very pleased at how smoothly this has gone, especially the hard > parts (and mad at myself for bungling two basically simple parts that > I just couldn't see for looking!). Many thanks indeed for your help. Remember, Questions can help you much faster, I have cc'ed the list in case anyone has further specifics, or I am flat out wrong. -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message