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Joacim Melin writes:

>  newbie question: which script do I put stuff that needs to be
>  booted during system startup, like apache httpd, spamd, named,
>  etc?

	Investigate the contents, and proper usage, of
"/usr/local/etc/rc.d".  It is also possible to put things in
"/etc/rc.local".
	You should also read the man page for "/etc/rc.conf".


				Robert Huff