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Date:      Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:30:10 -0600
From:      Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To:        Free BSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Best Way to Start an App at Boot Time?
Message-ID:  <086BC067104EE9D636C3F94E@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local>
In-Reply-To: <1142715349.9273.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References:  <441C702B.2070202@chrismaness.com> <441C710F.6010704@aeternal.net> <1142715349.9273.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>

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--On March 18, 2006 8:55:49 PM +0000 robert <bsd@bathnetworks.com> wrote:
>
> rc.local is not normally used with later versions of Freebsd - see man
> rc.local.
>
> The script should tell you how to use it, but normally it should be
> added to /usr/local/etc/rc.d and called from /etc/rc.conf with something
> like denyhosts="YES".
>
Please note that it would be denyhosts_enable="YES"

As long as there isn't anything special about the binary, a "standard" rc 
script will work fine.  You can look in your own /usr/local/etc/rc.d 
directory for examples, copy one and change the names to fit your program.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/



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