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Date:      Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:55:19 -0500
From:      "matt donovan" <kitchetech@gmail.com>
To:        "Gary Hartl" <ghartl@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Newbie question
Message-ID:  <28283d910811181455j66fd30fei358d6dabf340f8f5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Gary Hartl <ghartl@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all;
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> Quick newbie question.
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> I've been out of the bsd loop for a bit, i'm trying to setup nagios which
> is
> fine
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> There are a couple of settings that I either don't remember or never
> remembered and forgot that I never knew it.
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> Ok so nagios is asking me for an rc.d path, which if i recall FBSD doesn't
> use it is a linux script path for starting services at different run
> levels.
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> So does FBSD emulate it for certain packages cause Nagios finds it at
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d but the only thing i have in it is webmin.sh which is
> for my webmin interface (although I must confess I'm not sure why it is
> there or what it is doing).
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> I must also admit i feel rather retarded, since I used to know this stuff
> like the back of my hand, but it's been 6-7 years since i've been actively
> using FBSD but am looking to get back into it.
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> Rc.d anyone?
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> My assumption is that FBSD is using inetd for starting services correct?
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> Thanks
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> Gary
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No FreeBSD uses rc.d it's where the rc.d actually came from. for ports  it's
/usr/local/etc/rc.d for system scripts it's /etc/rc.d



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