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Date:      Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:04:18 -0900
From:      Beech Rintoul <beech@mangohealth.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com>
Subject:   Re: Best Way to Start an App at Boot Time?
Message-ID:  <200603181204.34401.beech@mangohealth.org>
In-Reply-To: <441C702B.2070202@chrismaness.com>
References:  <441C702B.2070202@chrismaness.com>

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On Saturday 18 March 2006 11:40, Chris Maness wrote:
> I like the rc.conf file idea that FreeBSD uses to start daemons.  I have
> a python script (i.e. denyhosts.py) that I would like to launch in a
> daemon mode at boot time.  How would I add this as an option for
> rc.conf, or is there a better more "official" way to do this?

You can also start your script at boot via cron. Use "@reboot" instead of t=
he=20
time settings on the crontab line (without the quotes). See man 5 crontab f=
or=20
more info.

Beech

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