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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:33:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>
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Subject: Re: Starting a daemon at boot
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I add startup scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d or /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d which
ever is appropriate.  You can use some of the existing scripts (hopefully
you have some) as examples.

Joe Clarke

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Louis LeBlanc wrote:

> Hey all.  Quick question.
> I have a daemon that I want started when FreeBSD comes up.  On Linux,
> I would either put a control script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and link it
> to the /etc/rc.d/rc#.d/ directories to control when it comes up in
> relation to the other startup steps.
>
> What is the *correct* way to do this in FreeBSD?
>
> TIA
> Lou
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