Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 09:54:48 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Daniel Zborovski <daniel@moonlighting.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running a program on startup Message-ID: <336D8438.BE5@barcode.co.il> References: <336D7CE2.70F8@moonlighting.net>
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Daniel Zborovski wrote: > > Is there a way to run a program on startup. As it is now everytime I > want to start my apache server I need to type: > > /usr/local/apache_1.1.1/src/httpd -f > /usr/local/apache_1.1.1/conf/http.conf > > There has to be an easier way!!! > > Thanks Alot > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > |Daniel Zborovski | daniel@moonlighting.net | > |Network Administartor | | > |Moonlighting Web Management | http://www.moonlighting.net | > ------------------------------------------------------------ Put it in /etc/rc.local. In later versions of FreeBSD (2.2 and above I believe) there's an alternative (using /usr/local/etc/rc.*), but for simple things such as this rc.local is the best. Nadav
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