Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especial

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Navdeep Parhar <nparhar@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/17/14 13:12, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > On 17 July 2014 13:03, Alberto Mijares <amijaresp@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> >>> Hi!
> >>>
> >>> 3) The binary packages need to work out of the box
> >>> 4) .. which means, when you do things like pkg install apache, it
> >>> can't just be installed and not be enabled, because that's a bit of a
> >>> problem;
> >>
> >>
> >> No. Please NEVER do that! The user must be able to edit the files and
> >> start the service by himself.
> >
> > Cool, so what's the single line command needed to type in to start a
> > given package service?
>
> Aren't sysrc(8) and service(8) for this kind of stuff?
>

They sure are.

Well, pkg install $service ; sysrc ${service}_enable="YES" would do.
Although some services have different names than the packge, which is sort
of annoying.

I wouldn't mind though if pkg via dialog or some such mechanism asked if
wanted it enabled. Or via pkg-message told me howto enable it.

/A
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