Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 07:17:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: big-sky@altavista.net Cc: Freebsd-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: File Differences Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910290715380.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <000601bf2210$0da80700$0201010a@cmr.net>
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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Mark Einreinhof wrote: > Could someone enlighten me as to the difference between rc.d, rc.conf, and > rc.local. I read posts and see so many people say to place the same command > but in different files that I am just confused. /usr/local/etc/rc.d is now the prefered place to put startup scripts if they are named *.sh then they will get executed at boottime. /etc/rc.conf is ONLY for variables that you want the startup scripts that live in /etc to see. /etc/rc.local is the 'old' way of doing /usr/local/etc/rc.d, one big script that gets run at boot time. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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