From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 10 03:03:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1374916A419 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:03:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+S7=2528e30f@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from turtle-out.mxes.net (turtle-out.mxes.net [216.86.168.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D417B13C467 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:03:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+S7=2528e30f@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178]) by turtle-in.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 748F2163F5B for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 21:32:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDFC323E3E8 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 21:32:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:32:04 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080210023204.2d5279bf@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <47ADEF6F.3050305@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <1563a4fd0802060609j59451879h3920be790d7667c0@mail.gmail.com> <47A9FB98.4020907@bsdforen.de> <1563a4fd0802070549r71731883t9d606a2e62f67d4d@mail.gmail.com> <20080209174516.7f82a967@gumby.homeunix.com.> <47ADEF6F.3050305@infracaninophile.co.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.7; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: script to be executed on system startup. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:03:43 -0000 On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:22:39 +0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > RW wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:19:48 +0530 > > "navneet Upadhyay" wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> After putting my script to /etc/rc.d , it gets executed at > >> startup and the parameter passed to the script is *faststart .* > >> *I want the same script to be executed when system shuts down , how > >> can i do that.* > > > > Don't put it in /etc/rc.d/, give it a .sh extension and put it > > in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. It will then get stop/start arguments. > > No need to force it to have a .sh extension in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ > nowadays. In fact, rather the contrary as a .sh extension causes the > script to be run in the context of the rc process rather than in a > sub-shell. > > In FreeBSD 6.2+ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ is totally integrated > with /etc/rc.d and treated exactly the same. The system re-runs > rcorder over both of those directories once it has got to the stage > of mounting all the critical filesystems. There's a bit more to it than that I think. As I understand it, local scripts that contain a "# PROVIDE" line are integrated into rcorder, local scripts that don't have that line, but end in .sh, are executed from /etc/rc.d/localpkg in the old-style. AFAIK local scripts that have neither are ignored. So in short, a user script that simply responds to start/stop needs to go /usr/local/etc/rc.d/, and it does need a .sh extension.