From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 11 12:21:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from akira.lanfear.com (akira.lanfear.com [208.12.10.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB5315008 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:21:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcw@lanfear.com) Received: from SHURIKEN (shuriken.lanfear.com [208.12.10.35]) by akira.lanfear.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA30311; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcw@lanfear.com) Reply-To: From: "Marc Wandschneider" To: "'Rob Kaper'" Cc: Subject: RE: rc.sysinit alike file in FreeBSD? Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:21:33 -0800 Message-ID: <001d01bf4415$51bf8090$230a0cd0@SHURIKEN> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <19991211211809.A20889@capsi.cx> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yeah methinks there is. Not exactly sure how to get around that one ... Can you just add an additional line to your rc.local code to check for the existence of the timestamp and then skip ? marc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Kaper [mailto:cap@capsi.cx] > Sent: Saturday, December 11, 1999 12:18 PM > To: Marc Wandschneider > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: rc.sysinit alike file in FreeBSD? > > > On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 12:10:49PM -0800, Marc Wandschneider wrote: > > doing a search in my /etc directory shows that rc.local is > ONLY run from > > rc, which only appears to be run at start up.. > > Are you sure? I have an account at a friends machine and it > /etc/rc tells > me: > > # System startup script run by init on autoboot > # or after single-user. > > This would mean that if you would boot up, go to single-user, > and back to > multi-user, it would get run again. Unless you are totally > sure there is no > single-user/multi-user approach the way Linux has. > > Rob > -- > Rob Kaper | mail: cap@capsi.com + cap@capsi.cx > | web: http://capsi.com/ + http://capsi.cx/ > | "We continue to be guided by the most basic > American values: > | innovation, integrity, serving customers, > partnership, quality, > | and giving back to the community." -- Bill Gates > of Microsoft > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message