From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 18 17:10:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC6F16A403 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:10:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: from relay02.pair.com (relay02.pair.com [209.68.5.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB4DD43D6E for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:10:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: (qmail 58760 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2006 17:10:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 18 Oct 2006 17:10:06 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 217.196.247.135 Message-ID: <4536600A.9010602@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:10:34 +0100 From: Robin Becker User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: kick off a post boot job X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:10:17 -0000 I have a number of servers which don't have console access, but I would like to have apache started automatically if the server is rebooted. However, it seems that if https is used then I need to type in a secret at boot time (on the console). Is there a way to start processes up automatically after the boot is finished? I could imagine asking another, trusted, server to supply the magic string using scp or some other secure transport and then using the decoded result to start up apache. -- Robin Becker