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Starting and Stopping Services (rc Scripts) https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/rc-scripts.html But as you already have a script that works, it would probably be easier to just create an "interface" to that script. There is a section in the article "Practical rc.d scripting in BSD" which might be helpful (and the article itself is worth reading): https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/rc-scripting/index.html Especially this section: 7. Connecting a script to the rc.d framework https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/rc-scripting/rcng-hookup.html I'm quite sure this is the easiest way to integrate the existing and working script with the requirements of rc.d. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...