From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 30 11:39:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4094E37B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:39:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7194643F75 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:39:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <2003013019395100200i4oc9e>; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:39:51 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0UJdp9s002131 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:39:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0UJdoqL002128; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:39:50 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modifying /etc/rc? References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030130143905.00a0aaa0@127.0.0.1> <20030130164007.GA29699@zot.electricrain.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 30 Jan 2003 14:39:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030130164007.GA29699@zot.electricrain.com> Message-ID: <44smvaifzt.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 8 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Doherty writes: > unless I'm wrong, /etc/rc.local exists specifically so you don't have to > modify /etc/rc. /etc/rc refers to rc.local as "traditional (but rather > obsolete)", but nowhere in my FreeBSD travels over the past four years > have I found any suggestion of what else you're supposed to use. For the answer to this question, see "man rc.local". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message