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Alex O.Belkin wrote:

> Hello, my name is Alex, I am from Moscow.
> I need your help. I want to start my Squid (path:
> /usr/local/squid/bin/squid) in boot time, can you send me rc.conf.local
> example that will do this?

Alex,

I have redirected your question to FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org. It is the place to ask common questions about FreeBSD.

To start any application automatically at boot time, write a short shell script named <appName.sh>, make it executable and owned by root, and drop it into /usr/loca/etc/rc.d/. Most ports do this for you if they need to start up daemons at boot time. TRhe squid 2.3-port automagically produces this startup script:

---<snip here>--
#!/bin/sh

if ! PREFIX=$(expr $0 : "\(/.*\)/etc/rc\.d/$(basename $0)\$"); then
    echo "$0: Cannot determine the PREFIX" >&2
    exit 1
fi

case "$1" in
start)
        if [ -x ${PREFIX}/sbin/RunCache -a -f ${PREFIX}/etc/squid/squid.conf ];
then
                (cd /tmp; ${PREFIX}/sbin/RunCache >/dev/null 2>&1 &) ; echo -n '
 squid'
        fi
        ;;
stop)
        ;;
*)
        echo "Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop}" >&2
        ;;
esac

exit 0
---<snip here>---

using /etc/rc.conf.local to start up userland apps is no longer redcommended.

HTH
-Christoph Sold



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