Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:52:26 +0100 From: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: script to be executed on system startup. Message-ID: <9bbcef730802060952o178e654hbc0412127c7e887a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080206163423.E4029@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <1563a4fd0802060609j59451879h3920be790d7667c0@mail.gmail.com> <fochm5$gre$1@ger.gmane.org> <20080206163423.E4029@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On 06/02/2008, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > > (for example: "/etc/rc.d/myscript") > > 2. chmod a+x the script > > 3. you're done. > > > > This will work for the recent versions of FreeBSD (you didn't say for > > which version do you need it). > > you need to make that script react for "start" and "stop" commands at > least You *can*, but you don't *need* to, if in a hurry :) The script will be executed once at startup, and it can parse the "start" argument given to it, but it doesn't have to. Yes, it's somewhat dirty if you ignore start/stop arguments (and if you ignore them you can't rely on nice built-in features like "restart" internally executing stop, then start) but it works. I spent a few days playing with the rc.d mechanism and it's awesome.
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