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On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:56:15 -0600
Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote:

> --On February 3, 2007 7:05:12 PM -0500 Bob <bob@tamara-b.org> wrote:
> >
> > My Question: Where is the proper place under FreeBSD, to put truly
> > local start-up commands? Commands I want executed at the very END
> > of the boot process, and which are truly LOCAL?
> >
> man (8) rc
> 
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rc.local

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ is a replacement for rc.local, so it would be odd
if /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rc.local had any special significance. 



I don't even have an rc.local file, so it doesn't play a part in the
normal boot process, and I assume it's only really deprecated for use
by packages, which should install a script instead.