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From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: RC scripts HOWTO
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On 3/13/06, Bob Goodman <goodman@mac.hush.com> wrote:
> Guys,
> could you please direct me to some info, the detailed the better,
> on how RC and RCng scripts work in FreeBSD.
> Can't seem to find in handbook or google.

I'm afraid the only way to get comprehensive knowledge
at this time is to carefully study /etc/rc and /etc/rc.subr.

/etc/rc.d/* are nice examples.

It takes a couple of hours of reading the sources, in case
you're pretty familiar with sh.