From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 6:54:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B220114F04 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 06:54:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA16807; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 07:17:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 07:17:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: big-sky@altavista.net Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re: File Differences In-Reply-To: <000601bf2210$0da80700$0201010a@cmr.net> 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 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