Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 20:48:47 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: MarcW@Lanfear.com (Marc Wandschneider) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/rc.local vs /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ Message-ID: <199911090148.UAA39558@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <13D5F9EDFD72D211BC3100105A1C223305498B@akira.lanfear.com> from Marc Wandschneider at "Nov 8, 1999 05:11:51 pm"
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Marc Wandschneider wrote,
>
>
> blaugh!
>
> so, I'm trying to set up xdm. I've looked on the
> FreeBSD-questions archive on www.freebsd.org, and it suggests that i put
> a few lines of code in:
>
> 1. /etc/rc.local
> OR
> 2. /usr/local/etc/rc.d
>
> Problem is, i have neither of these files.
>
> Should I create them? Is there some new location that has
> superseded these? If I create these, how can I be sure they're
> executed?
In /etc/defaults/rc.conf, we have the following,
local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d" # startup script dirs.
And in /etc/rc, we have,
% more /etc/rc
.
.
.
# for each valid dir in $local_startup, search for init scripts matching *.sh
if [ "X${local_startup}" != X"NO" ]; then
echo -n 'Local package initialization:'
for dir in ${local_startup}; do
[ -d ${dir} ] && for script in ${dir}/*.sh; do
[ -x ${script} ] && \
(set -T ; trap 'exit 1' 2 ; ${script} start)
done
done
echo .
fi
.
.
.
if [ -f /etc/rc.local ]; then
echo -n 'starting local daemons:'
sh /etc/rc.local
echo '.'
fi
.
.
.
There's the code. Last I was told, the SysV-style /etc/local/etc/rc.d
was prefered over /etc/rc.local.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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