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...
> > John
>
> 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
> Copying it to /etc/rc.d/rc.3/ would just start it on a boot to runlevel
> 3.
>
> -Matt Stegman
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
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