Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 15:28:40 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Rob Kaper <cap@capsi.cx> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: rc.sysinit alike file in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199912112028.PAA64986@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <19991211210027.A20861@capsi.cx>
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On 11-Dec-99 Rob Kaper wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am porting a Linux program to FreeBSD. The program's functionality relies
> on two start-up files:
>
> rc.local --> starts the daemon in the background
> rc.S/sysinit --> creates a timestamp on startup
>
> It's very important for the way the program functions that creating the
> timestamp during startup only happens ONCE, no matter if runlevels are
> switched, etc etc.
>
> I have found rc.local, is there a FreeBSD equivalent to this rc.S or
> rc.sysinit file and what is it? Would it also work on different *BSD's or
> not?
rc.local is deprecated. Put a shell script in ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d. These
scripts are run every time during single-user to multi-user. Re: sysinit, you
can't use the boottime of the machine instead of the timestamp? Failing that,
you could have a small utility that compared the timestamp with the boottime,
and only update the timestamp if its older, then run that utility in the script
in etc/rc.d/. (Or even put that functionality in the startup of the daemon.)
> Rob
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