Re: Stupid question about startup script.

[ASV <asv%inhio.eu@localhost>]

TNX to Greg and Leonardo for the /etc/mk.conf tip!
Pretty useful.

On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 08:05 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> ASV <asv%inhio.eu@localhost> writes:
> 
> > I've a stupid question: I've used pkgsrc for the first time and after
> > compiling and installing everything (successfully) I see that startup
> > scripts of the installed services are somehow "stuck" into
> >
> > /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d
> >
> > which looks a bit odd to me.
> > As in FBSD all the installed ones would go to /usr/local/etc/rc.d I'm
> > asking if the place where those scripts are now 
> >
> > /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d
> >
> > is where they're supposed to be or I should manually copy/link them
> > on /etc/rc.d ???
> 
> In theory the pkgsrc guide explains this, but I'm not sure it actually
> does.   See pkgsrc/doc/*.
> 
> The short answer is that by default the rc.d scripts are treatd as
> examples.  If you want to enable something, you can copy it to
> /etc/rc.d, where all the startup scripts live.
> 
> Or, you can tell pkgsrc to install a copy for every package that has an
> rc.d script by putting the following in /etc/mk.conf
> 
> PKG_RCD_SCRIPTS=              YES