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Jan Christian Meyer wrote:

> If you still need to do shell stuff on startup, slapping
> together a script and putting it in rc.d is the way to go.
> The man pages of rc explain the works, and include a
> template script which you can copy and fill in.

Wow! There's a lot there, in man rc. I'll play with that. 

Is there a way to force the startup files to be re-read 
without completely rebooting the system? That would help 
while I'm learning.

Thank you!

Jay