Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 19:46:45 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?B?U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ=?= <neigaard@e-box.dk> To: "Freddie Cash" <fcash@ocis.net> Cc: fcash@bigfoot.vom, newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: automatic start of Apache Message-ID: <172104446956.20010930194645@e-box.dk> In-Reply-To: <200109301651.JAA23450@ocis.ocis.net> References: <200109301651.JAA23450@ocis.ocis.net>
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Sunday, September 30, 2001, 6:51:03 PM, Freddie wrote:
FC> First, this is not the right list to be asking technical questions on. This list is for new users to
FC> discuss their experiences running FreeBSD (the good, the bad, the ugly if needed). If you are
FC> unsure how to phrase a technical question for the freebsd-questions list, then post the info you
FC> have and ask for suggestions on making it better here. :) Just an FYI for next time.
Ok - Så this question as a newbie one, I will try to avoid the same mistake
again. Ok I sent this mail to the group, but I get an error trying to
send to you.
FC> If you want to be able to control its start/stop/restart a la SysV/Linux, then you can create a
FC> simple script and put it in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ All the executable scripts in this directory are run at
FC> boot time with a "start" argument (for FreeBSD 4+, in 3- it just ran the executable scripts).
FC> The easiest script is like so:
FC> #!/bin/sh
FC> case "$1" in
FC> start)
FC> echo -n "apache "
FC> /usr/local/sbin/apchectl start
FC> ;;
FC> stop)
FC> /usr/local/sbin/apachectl stop
FC> ;;
FC> restart)
FC> /usr/local/sbin/apachectl restart
FC> ;;
FC> *)
FC> echo "Usage: $0 {start | stop | restart}"
FC> ;;
FC> esac
I like this method best :) I can see that httpd runs as nobody. Can I
change this, and is it a good/bad idea?
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