From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 8 13:22:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.cybersurf.net (smtp1.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2808D15271; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:22:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 01031149@3web.net) Received: from webserver ([209.197.156.24]) by smtp1.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.05) with SMTP id FO1CRE00.UXN; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:23:38 -0700 Message-ID: <017501bf5a1e$9c9396a0$189cc5d1@webserver> From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: "Alfred Perlstein" Cc: Subject: Re: Newbie has a lot of questions... Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 12:43:01 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Alfred Perlstein To: John Indra Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Saturday, January 08, 2000 5:56 AM Subject: Re: Newbie has a lot of questions... [snip...] >Yes, however you have a couple of 'hooks' you can use, firstly, >/etc/rc.conf can have variables (NOT commands) put into it, look >at /etc/default/rc.conf for examples. > >Also, /etc/rc.local can hold local startup commands, and /usr/local/etc/rc.d >can hold scripts to be run at startup (they must end in .sh) I suppose that I blew it by having ``vidcontrol blah blah blah'' in /etc/rc.conf; and that I should have used /etc/rc.local? TIA........-duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message