Looking for holes in the docs to fill in

[Ceri Davies]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:26:52AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> Ceri Davies wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:09:56PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> >>One thing I feel is missing is a basic admin tutorial for newbies.  I 
> >>mean,
> >>the handbook covers installing and getting everything up and running, but
> >>once you're there you're lost.  A lot of Linux folks seem to get lost
> >>(for example) figuring out how to get Apache to start automatically after
> >>it's installed.  I'm guessing an explanation in the ports section of the
> >>handbook would help, what do others think?
> >
> >That's done by the port, isn't it?
> 
> Most ports these days install a sample script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d 
> (although this doesn't seem to be 100% consistent)  The apache.sh.sample must
> be renamed before it'll do anything at boot.
> 
> If you're new to FreeBSD, this can be annoying and the documentation on how
> to handle this doesn't seem to jump out from anywhere.  The ports section of
> the handbook doesn't mention it.  I've got an update to the handbook I'm 
> going to submit some time today that I think will improve this.  I've heard of 
> lots of people putting 'apachectl start' in their rc.conf file because they 
> couldn't figure out the proper way to do this.

OK, sounds good.

Thanks,

Ceri
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