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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



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