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Subject: rc.d execution  was:boot up notification
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Gregor Mosheh wrote:
>>I would like one of my servers to send me an email
>>when
>>it boots. I envision a script in rc.conf to do this.
>>Is there an easier way, or an automatic system which
>>can do this?
> 
> 
> I put this script in my /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory.
> I want it to run last, so I name it 999.notify.sh
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 

do the rc scripts execute the file(s) it finds in an order
OTHER than the normal ascii sequence? Reason I ask is that
"999..." falls AFTER upper-case and BEFORE lower-case.