From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 19 15: 6: 4 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 15:06:02 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 563EA37B402 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:06:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0G5U00B01855VJ@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:05:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.145]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0G5U0033J8506K@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:05:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:05:34 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: URLs For Script Intro for Newbie To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've had FBSD installed for a couple of months now and have decided that to further my experience with it I need to start learning about scripts. I assume I need to learn about the standard /bin/sh shell (<- is this the correct term?). Can anyone recommend reading or URLs for the beginner? I have experience with DOS batch file and OpenVMS command procedures so any reference that makes comparisons with those operating systems would be extra helpful. My immediate need is to write a script that starts my dynamic IP service client to place in rc.d. If someone could help me with this I'd be most appreciative. To start it from the command line, I just su to root and type "dynipclient". How do I put this in a script? Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message