Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 12:40:01 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: startup / shutdown script (rc.d) Message-ID: <20070601124001.7c02a4ce@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <10902043.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <10902043.post@talk.nabble.com>
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On Thu, 31 May 2007 14:06:45 -0700 (PDT) gmoniey <gmoniey@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering if there is a simple way to create 1 script that will > be called during startup and shutdown. Basically, I am looking for > something like this: > > if startup > run command 1 with params > run command 2 with params > run command 3 with params > > if shutdown > run command 4 with params > run command 5 with params > run command 6 with params > > i have tried lookin up rc.d documentation, but it very vague and > difficult to understand...thanks There are lots of existing scripts that do this kind of thing. A good example is /etc/rc.d/random which feeds entropy files to /dev/random on startup, and writes-out entropy on shutdown. It's pretty easy to see what's going-on.
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