From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 17 20:33:16 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 20:33:13 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iohost.com (unknown [209.189.124.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F24437B402 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 20:33:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from ntserver.ccsales.com (adsl-63-205-137-52.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.205.137.52]) by iohost.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eBI4X1j28072; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 20:33:01 -0800 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20001217203142.0430cd68@mail.ccsales.com> X-Sender: randyk@mail.ccsales.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 20:32:08 -0800 To: "Matthew Emmerton" , "Otter" , "Drew Tomlinson" , "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" From: Randy Katz Subject: Re: How to Get Program to Start Automatically Upon Boot In-Reply-To: <002901c06895$d92859d0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please correct me if I'm wrong but /etc/rc.local seems to be alive and well, at least in R4.1.1... At 08:57 PM 12/17/2000 -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: >Furthermore, I believe someone (authoritative) mentioned a while ago on the >list that /etc/rc.local has been deprecated in favour of /usr/local/etc/rc.d >since the early days of 3.x, perhaps before. > >-- >Matt Emmerton > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Otter" >To: "Randy Katz" ; "Drew Tomlinson" ; >"FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" >Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 8:36 PM >Subject: RE: How to Get Program to Start Automatically Upon Boot > > > > Some of us don't have /etc/rc.local floating around on our drives. You > > can make scripts that start up as an .sh script in > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ > > -Otter > > > > > > }-----Original Message----- > > }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Randy Katz > > }Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 8:22 PM > > }To: Drew Tomlinson; FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) > > }Subject: Re: How to Get Program to Start Automatically Upon Boot > > } > > } > > }hi, /etc/rc.local > > } > > } > > } > > }At 05:17 PM 12/17/2000 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > }>I have added a program to my system and would like it to start > > }>automatically upon boot. I'm sure it's as simple as adding > > }the program > > }>name to some startup script but I don't know where that > > }would be. So > > }>what file do I need to modify? > > }> > > }>Thanks for your help! > > }> > > }>Drew > > }> > > }> > > }> > > }>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > }>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > } > > } > > } > > }To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > }with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > } > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message