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Date:      Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:21:33 -0800
From:      "Marc Wandschneider" <marcw@lanfear.com>
To:        "'Rob Kaper'" <cap@capsi.cx>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: rc.sysinit alike file in FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <001d01bf4415$51bf8090$230a0cd0@SHURIKEN>
In-Reply-To: <19991211211809.A20889@capsi.cx>

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	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
> --
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