From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 11 12:31: 9 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 8939E150A8; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:31:07 -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 MAA30340; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:31:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcw@lanfear.com) Reply-To: From: "Marc Wandschneider" To: "'John Baldwin'" , "'Rob Kaper'" Cc: Subject: RE: rc.sysinit alike file in FreeBSD? Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:31:06 -0800 Message-ID: <001e01bf4416$a6f0c730$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: <199912112028.PAA64986@server.baldwin.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 "rc.local is deprecated. Put a shell script in ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d." Can you explain this line a bit more? What is ${PREFIX} ??? marc. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: rc.sysinit alike file in FreeBSD? > > > 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.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message