From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 23 16:51:55 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 16:51:52 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984C137B698 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:51:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b030.otenet.gr [195.167.121.158]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eBO0peh16349; Sun, 24 Dec 2000 02:51:41 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBNFQ6o74419; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 17:26:06 +0200 (EET) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 17:26:06 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Otter Cc: Randy Katz , Drew Tomlinson , "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: How to Get Program to Start Automatically Upon Boot Message-ID: <20001223172606.B48060@hades.hell.gr> References: <5.0.2.1.0.20001217172202.029d6f00@mail.ccsales.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from otterr@telocity.com on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 08:36:00PM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 08:36:00PM -0500, Otter wrote: > Some of us don't have /etc/rc.local floating around on our drives. You > can make scripts that start up as an .sh script in > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ > > -Otter It does not exist, but the code of /etc/rc will run it if you make one. From my 4-STABLE /etc directory I can read in /etc/rc: if [ -r /etc/rc.local ]; then echo -n 'starting local daemons:' sh /etc/rc.local echo '.' fi - giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message