starting services?

[Gerard Seibert]

On Monday, November 21, 2005 1:08:19 PM, Gerry Freymann <lists at interpool.ca>
Subject: Re: starting services?
Wrote these words of wisdom:

> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:32:29 -0500
> "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> 
> >On 11/17/05, Gerry Freymann <lists at interpool.ca> wrote:
> >>  If you manually want to do this, you *must* use the full path to the
> >> script:
> >>
> >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba.sh start | stop
> >
> >In the rc(8) manpage, it states that .sh scripts are sourced directly.
> >
> >     4.   Call each script in turn using run_rc_script() (from
> >     rc.subr(8)),
> >          which sets $1 to ``start'', and sources the script in a
> >          subshell. If the script has a .sh suffix then it is sourced
> >          directly into the current shell.
> >
> >Why is that? I've found that running apache.sh directly with
> >start|stop doesn't work. I need to run apachectl.
> 
>  In order to manually call up apache.sh in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> directory, you have to use the full path to the script.
> 
>  If you:
> 
> cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> ./apache.sh start
> 
>  it should complain and error out. 
> 
>  but if you did:
> 
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh start
> 
>  things should go as planned.
> 
>  That's, at least, if you wanna do it manually (to either stop or start a
> service that has a shell script in there).
> 
> -gerry

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On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied:

I have apache2 installed and have no problem with:

./apache2.sh start

Obviously, I have to run it as root.

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