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From: "Jacco" <jacco@lionsoft.xs4all.nl>
To: "Frank Laszlo" <nez@FREEBSDMATRIX.NET>
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Subject: RE: Start scripts as "deamons"
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 22:53:50 +0100
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Hi Frank,

| Are you talking about crontab? or maybe /usr/local/etc/rc.d
| either way, crontab will allow you to run scripts and make sure they keep
| running at specified times, and the fold i specified is the folder to put
| scripts in that you wish to have start when you boot.

Unfortunately I realy mean a inittab:

# inittab       This file describes how the INIT process should set up
#               the system in a certain run-level.
#

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have
networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)

processname:23:respawn:scriptname


This means that the script always runs when the machine is up and not at a
defined time (crontab). You can kill it with a "killall -HUP processname"
and it comes right back up and running again..... (on my RedHat 6.2 machine
witch is a bad one and has to be replaced by FreeBSD).
I'm looking for a similar option in Freebsd.

Thank you,
Jacco


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