Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 17:58:06 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time) From: Gerard Seibert <gerard-seibert@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Proper way to start a program at log-on Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.60.0405231754520.3584@Treneq>
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Since I am still new to this OS, I thought that I would check to make sure that I am doing this correctly. On my WinXP machine, I run the Distributed Net 'dnetc' program. Further information regarding this program is available here: http://www.distributed.net//docs/tutor_clients.php. To start the program in the background I need to issue the following command: 'dnetc -quiet'. Since I want to start this program automatically each time I log on, I placed that command at the end of my '.bash_profile' file. I then placed the shutdown command 'dnetc -shutdown' in the '/etc/rc.shutdown' file. Since everything seems to be workings correctly, I assume that I have done this correctly. If there is a better way to do this, I would appreciate receiving the information. Thanks! Gerard E. Seibert gerard-seibert@rcn.com
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