One thing to keep in mind is that in many ways FreeBSD is the opposite of RH based systems. (I am guessing you've used a RH based one because you mention the service command--hrrm, maybe the others have it too, I don't know.)
At any rate, in many cases, in RedHat, when a program is installed, it's often set to start automatically in /etc/init.d. In FreeBSD, even when a program is installed, it is not set to run at startup.
To get it to run at startup, you'll look at the /usr/local/etc/rc.d script for the program--it will tell you what to enter in /etc/rc.conf to get the program to start.
It takes some getting used to but you might find that you like it better once you've adjusted to the differences.
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