From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 14 22:11:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 963C537B8EF for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:11:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from desktop.freebsd.org (idxwc07-62.idx.com.au [203.166.2.62]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA14087; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:11:06 +1000 From: Danny To: Drew Sanford , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rc startup question Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 15:18:31 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <39478846.B31029F4@planetwe.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00061615194605.00330@desktop.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Then simply - as root cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d vi sysprogs.sh in the sysprogs.sh file type in #!/bin/sh /usr/local/sysprogs/bin/syspogs Exit form vi Then chmod 755 sysprogs.sh Then it should start whatever automatically during bootup. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Drew Sanford wrote: > If I want to start something that isn't listed in rc.conf the way, say > named is, how would I go about doing that automagically at boot time? > With snmpd for example, would I add something like > > /usr/local/sbin/snmpd > > to rc.conf, or am I way off track? This probly seems like a really > stupid question but I'm at a loss coming from a linux backround where > rc.local would just have the above line added to it. Thanks for any > help. > > -- > Drew Sanford > Systems Administrator > Planetwe.com > Email: drew@planetwe.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------ You are not authorized to use my email address for spam or any purpose whatsoever. Remove my email address from your databases immediately and do not attempt to email me in any way. ------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message