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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:21:25 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
Cc:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Bill Banks <office@ourweb.net>
Subject:   Re: starting a program at boot time
Message-ID:  <20080311142125.1dc6b386.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080311181017.GJ665@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
References:  <47CEDD64.4090100@ourweb.net> <20080305192330.S8517@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080311181017.GJ665@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>

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In response to Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>:

> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:24:07PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> 
> > >how do i  start a program  at boot time?
> > 
> > simplest to add to rc.local
> > 
> > or as a user - add
> > 
> > @reboot command
> > in crontab
> 
> Not really.   
> 
> The more proper way is to add a startup script in /usr/local/rc.d/

Just for the sanity of the OP: that directory is /usr/local/etc/rc.d

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com



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