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#1 (**permalink**) 08-01-2006, 12:58 PM

i have freebsd and netbsd as well as OpenBSD i wanna know how to BSD start daemon i.e. services under these oses

monk · #2 (**permalink**) 09-01-2006, 11:06 AM

if you are using FreeBSD then it has two location (directory) where all scripts stored to start/stop/restart services

Code:

/etc/rc.d/service-name start
/etc/rc.d/service-name stop
/etc/rc.d/service-name restart

Under freebsd ports related service/daemon can be found under /usr/locat/etc/rc.d directory so you can use:

Code:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/service-name start
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/service-name stop
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/service-name restart

NetBSD use same (above) stuff. OpenBSD don't have /etc/rc.d or /etc/init.d like Linux or Solairs or FreeBSD. It is plain UNIX stuff

To start OpenBSD service/daemon:

Code:

/path/to/daemon &
/path/to/daemon

For example to start OpenBSD sshd and inetd server:

Code:

/usr/sbin/sshd &
/usr/sbin/inetd &

To restart OpenBSD service/daemon:

Code:

kill -HUP `cat /var/run/daemon.pid`

So restart OpenBSD SSHD service/daemon:

Code:

kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sshd.pid`

So restart OpenBSD inetd service/daemon:

Code:

kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`

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