Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:46:04 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: script to be executed on system startup. Message-ID: <20080206184604.62b6ac6d@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <fochm5$gre$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <1563a4fd0802060609j59451879h3920be790d7667c0@mail.gmail.com> <fochm5$gre$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:55:12 +0100 Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote: > I've seen some complicated examples on this thread, and want to > suggest a simple one: > > 1. create a regular shell script in /etc/rc.d, n >.. > A more semantically pure example (and the one that's preferred if your > script starts an external application - a web server or something like > that) is to put the script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. In any case, the > syntax and everything else is the same. This is a bit muddled. /etc/rc.d is for system RCNG scripts. /usr/local/etc/rc.d is for local RCNG scripts and legacy scripts that simply respond to stop/start in $1. Legacy scripts end in .sh and are called from /etc/rc.d/localpkg in dictionary order. Since the OP appears to have such a script it should be given a ".sh" extension and placed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, not in /etc/rc.d.
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