On 26 Sep, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> On 26 Sep, John Aldrich wrote:
>> > On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, you wrote:
>> >> How do I do that?
>> >>
>> >> It's httpd, the one that is built wiht Apache 1.3.9. I have it
>> >> configured to standalone in ../../apache/conf/httpd.conf right now, but
>> >> I don't know how to start it automatically.
>> >>
>> >> It says in the docs something about rc3.d, but I don't know what file
>> >> to edit inside the directory.
>> > Hmm....good point. I'd say put the httpd command in
>> > /etc/rc.d/rc.local and let it go from there. AFAIK, that *should* be
>> > the equivalent of putting it in MSDOS's "autoexec.bat" where it'll
>> > start automagically at boot.
>> > 'Course, this is only a guess, as I'm not running httpd here...
>>
>> Actually, I believe the better way to do this would be to put the httpd
>> executable in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ (which, I believe, should be the
>> default for Mandrake). Did you not install Mandrake's Apache RPM?
>>
>> Try `ls /etc/rc.d/init.d/` Do you see httpd anywhere in there? If
>> not, copy (or link) httpd to this directory. That should start it on a
>> boot to runlevel 3 or 5.
>
> the httpd file in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ is a shell script
So it is. It seems everything in init.d is a shell script. Sure are a
lot of those around...
So then, since it seems he did not install Mandrake's Apache RPM, I
guess it would be better to put the startup command in rc.local.
-Matt Stegman
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