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Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 18:21:32 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
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Subject: Re: running a program on startup
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I use rc.local, even on SYSV machines -- I guess because I'm too old or
stubborn to change. I like it. But now, everyone says it's deprecated.

Does anyone know why?

-- Jay

On Mon, 5 May 1997, Jeff Newton wrote:

->Dan Busarow wrote:
->> 
->> On Mon, 5 May 1997, Daniel Zborovski wrote:
->> > Is there a way to run a program on startup.  As it is now everytime I
->> > want to start my apache server I need to type:
->> >
->> > /usr/local/apache_1.1.1/src/httpd -f
->> > /usr/local/apache_1.1.1/conf/http.conf
->> 
->> For 2.1.5R and up, create the directory
->> 
->>         /usr/local/etc/rc.d
->> 
->> When the system boots it looks for files with a .sh extension
->> in this directory and executes them.  So you want to create
->> a file named /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh containing
->> 
->> #!/bin/sh
->> /usr/local/apache_1.1.1/src/httpd -f /usr/local/apache_1.1.1/conf/http.conf
->> 
->> Chmod +x it and you are all set.
->> 
->
->Or simply add /usr/local/apache_1.1.1/src/httpd -f to /etc/rc.local
->
->Creating a /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory and seperate scripts is perhaps
->a little cleaner (sys V style) but I find /etc/rc.local just as
->managable.
->
->Cheers,
->
->-- 
->Jeff Newton
->Network Administrator
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