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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 18:39:01 -0400
From: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>
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Subject: Re: Starting a daemon at boot
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Thanks all.  I guess that was a little too obvious for me.  Now that I
think about it, it makes sense that the system would not bother to
start some things if /usr/local became unavailable.

I'll get the hang of this OS yet :)

Thanks again
Lou

On 07/03/01 06:24 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed:
> 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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