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Subject: Re: script to be executed on system startup.
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:55:12 +0100
Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:


> I've seen some complicated examples on this thread, and want to
> suggest a simple one:
> 
> 1. create a regular shell script in /etc/rc.d, n
>..
> A more semantically pure example (and the one that's preferred if your
> script starts an external application - a web server or something like
> that) is to put the script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. In any case, the
> syntax and everything else is the same.

This is a bit muddled.

/etc/rc.d is for system RCNG scripts.

/usr/local/etc/rc.d is for local RCNG scripts and legacy scripts
that simply respond to stop/start in $1. Legacy scripts end in .sh and
are called from /etc/rc.d/localpkg in dictionary order.

Since the OP appears to have such a script it should be given a ".sh"
extension and placed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, not in /etc/rc.d.