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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:56:46 +0100
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To: Eric Long <eric@metrotv.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: What initiates running the startup files in /etc ?
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:53:21AM -0600, Eric Long wrote:
> What initiates running the startup files in /etc?  None of my startup
> configurations are being set because /etc/rc.conf, /usr/local/etc/rc.d, etc
> contents are not being executed at startup.  I can manually run these as
> root but obviously this is an unacceptable scenario in that my network
> configuration is not automatically run at startup.
> 
> Anyone know why /etc/rc.conf wouldn't be run at startup?  This is happening
> after updating from 4.0-RELEASE to 4.5-STABLE.  I did run mergemaster.
> 
> -Eric

During the bootprocess init(8) should execute /etc/rc which is the script
from which all the other /etc/rc* scripts are started.



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