Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 22:29:58 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Mike Esquardez <mikeala3@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: startup script not working Message-ID: <200601022230.10387.akbeech@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY7-F13E252A65D0DFF9E8E98259A2C0@phx.gbl> References: <BAY7-F13E252A65D0DFF9E8E98259A2C0@phx.gbl>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--nextPart4638830.U5bSh4LUAH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 02 January 2006 10:14 pm, Mike Esquardez wrote: > Hello. I have been reading the docs but i can see what i'm doing wrong. I > also was to read this > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-star >ting-services.html but I am not running a service, just some command that > need to be run on start up. > > I have a shell script that works when i run it as root. I have moved it to > /usr/local/etc/rc.d and chmod +x but it is not running when the pc starts. > Is moving file to usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and chmod +x all i have to do? > > Any ideas would be great. many thanks to you. > Mik > You should run your script from cron. See man 5 crontab. Add the following to /etc/crontab @reboot root /path/to/your/script Beech --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://akparadise.byethost33.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --nextPart4638830.U5bSh4LUAH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDuigCVq19LUoGB+MRAt9+AKCz9RT6osw0wWBD3GZtj3qWyDYFZwCgvMeR BYwm8OZOvI/E86PUXyVDnmg= =2eTA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4638830.U5bSh4LUAH--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200601022230.10387.akbeech>