From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 29 18:01:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01589 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 18:01:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from PigStuy.dyn.ml.org (nyc-ny71-56.ix.netcom.com [209.109.226.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01408 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 18:01:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@pigstuy.dyn.ml.org) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by PigStuy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA14641; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 21:00:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@pigstuy.dyn.ml.org) Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 21:00:16 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim Reply-To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com To: "Marko's Work" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Curious about what happens during boot. In-Reply-To: <01be1bfa$fdc6f100$ba80b7d1@vidbox> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Marko's Work wrote: > With FreeBSD, what script is run first (upon boot) in the /etc directory? > With dos, config.sys and autoexec.bat are run after > command.com, but in FreeBSD what comes after running the kernel? > I would like to trace the whole procedure to become familiar with it. The first script run from /etc is rc. You can look in rc for the exact order of other system startup scripts. -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message