starting services?

[Michael Beattie]

On 11/21/05, Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> On 11/21/05, Gerry Freymann <lists at interpool.ca> wrote:
> >  but if you did:
> >
> > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh start
> >
> >  things should go as planned.
>
> That's odd. Why's that? Why should the script care?
>
> Mike

It uses part of the command line to determine where it's run form. 
That way it knows to look at like /etc or /usr/local/etc for
configuration as well as other things.