From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 18 17:42:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2204A16A415 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:42:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD51743D60 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:42:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:42:14 -0400 id 00056419.45366776.0001652B Received: from Internal Mail-Server (206.210.89.202) by mx01 (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 18 Oct 2006 13:37:12 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:42:13 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Robin Becker Message-Id: <20061018134213.cec3a18b.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <4536600A.9010602@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> References: <4536600A.9010602@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kick off a post boot job X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:42:18 -0000 In response to Robin Becker : > I have a number of servers which don't have console access, but I would like to > have apache started automatically if the server is rebooted. However, it seems > that if https is used then I need to type in a secret at boot time (on the console). > > Is there a way to start processes up automatically after the boot is finished? > > I could imagine asking another, trusted, server to supply the magic string using > scp or some other secure transport and then using the decoded result to start up > apache. You could just store your cert and key unencrypted. There are other ways as well. Apache supports plugins for this purpose, but that question would be better answered on one of the Apache mailing lists. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.