From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 00:17:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA23918 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:17:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA23889 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:17:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zU47O-0005cz-00; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:16:10 +0200 Message-ID: <19981016091610.B21609@cityip.co.za> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:16:10 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: Nicholas Albert Fikouras , "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Configuring Ports Mail-Followup-To: Nicholas Albert Fikouras , "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" References: <36262B3A.69D9D874@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <36262B3A.69D9D874@dcs.shef.ac.uk>; from Nicholas Albert Fikouras on Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 06:04:58PM +0100 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 at 18:04 SAT, Nicholas Albert Fikouras wrote: > > I would appreciate if anyone could tell me if freebsd offers some > service that configures newly installed ports automatically. Take for > example the apache www server. I have just installed it as a port. How > can I get to configure it and get to run like other systen daemons. Depends on what you mean by "run like other system daemons". If you mean that it must be started automatically at system startup, well, then installing the Apache port will create a shell script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh, which will do just that. If you mean actually configure it for you... Hmmmmm... FreeBSD is good, but not prescient. ;-) It still doesn't know _how_ you want your Web server configured. However, under most circumstances, tweaking just one or two lines in httpd.conf should get you a "default" Apache up and running. -- V Johann Visagie | wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 | ICQ: 20645559 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message