From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 13:12:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smnolde.com (rr-163-52-193.atl.mediaone.net [24.163.52.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0CC637B406 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:12:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@smnolde.com) Received: from bsd.smnolde.com ([192.168.10.7] helo=bsd) by smnolde.com with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15X71s-000JNK-00; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:12:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:12:29 -0400 (EDT) From: To: Martin McCormick Cc: Subject: Re: Best Recommended Practice for Starting Daemons During Boot In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010815161148.B77544-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> 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 I add "/path/to/isc-dhcpd dc1" to /etc/rc.local. - Scott smacked into the keyboard previously: >Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 14:58:17 -0500 >From: Martin McCormick >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Best Recommended Practice for Starting Daemons During Boot > > I have installed the ISC dhcp server on a FreeBSD system >and it appears to work so I am trying to get the startup command >included in the boot procedures. > > I followed the same pattern in rc.conf as is used by >named and ntpd but nothing happened. The documentation says that >rc.conf is not meant to start the daemons but supplies values to >the variables used in other scripts like rc.network. I also saw >a reference to rc.d and the system kindly creates a rc.d >directory in /usr/local/etc. > > What is the most elegant way to start a daemon that has >been added after system installation? > >Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK >OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Data Communications Group > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message