deamon start at boot freeBSD

kernelvn · 06-03-2005, 10:24 PM

hi all , I would like to know how to make a deamon start at boot time with freeBSD . In linux ( redhat ) I have the chkconfig command and I'll be very happy if there something similar it in freeBSD

thank all

btmiller · 06-03-2005, 11:38 PM

If /etc/rc supports the daemon directly, you would just edit your /etc/rc.conf.local to start the daemon (see /etc/rc.conf for an idea on the syntax etc.). If it's not supported by /etc/rc, the easiest thing to do is add the startup command to /etc/rc.local.

kernelvn · 06-03-2005, 11:47 PM

thank for your words , but I could not findout the :

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supports the daemon directly

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If it's not supported by /etc/rc, the easiest thing to do is add the startup command to /etc/rc.local.

kernelvn · 06-03-2005, 11:51 PM

thank for your words , but I could not findout the :

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supports the daemon directly

and

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If it's not supported by /etc/rc, the easiest thing to do is add the startup command to /etc/rc.local.

could you give me more detail for that ?

I used linux for several month , and I knew that adding the command to /etc/rc.local make it run at boot time , but that way is not so good when a command is a deamon shell file .

I install httpd from port ( the freeBSD version is 5.4 ) , how should I do ?

thank for reading

btmiller · 06-04-2005, 12:01 PM

Did you read the handbook entry on Apache? It gives you exact directions for starting Apache on boot (and it seems like it is supported by /etc/rc.conf.

kernelvn · 06-04-2005, 12:16 PM

Yes !
I did it , thank

I would like to know that file /ect/rc.conf how could it find out the script starting the deamon ?

I found some in /etc/rc.d ( sshd , sendmail ) and /usr/local/sbin ( as apachectl )

As in linux , all the script put in the /etc/init.d , and with the freeBSD I found it do not similar ( maybe the script in /etc/rc.d or /usr/local/sbin as abouve) .

So how could I control the /etc/rc.conf ?

btmiller · 06-04-2005, 01:17 PM

You control /etc/rc.conf by changing around the entries in it (read the comments, they're quite good). Basically, when BSD boots init runs the /etc/rc script which parses rc.conf and rc.conf.local and starts programs based on the settings therein. I suggest you check out this section of the handbook (in fact you really ought to sit down and read the whole handbook and the rc(8) man page since the BSDs don't have runlevels per se the way Linux systems do.