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Cc: Rance Hall <ranceh@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: need a shell script that can be executed manually or as part of
 the rc process. How can the script detect WHERE it is being called
 from to know how to handle various options.
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> One simpler would be to use a cron job that runs @reboot
> I believe these cron jobs would be run after the system is booted in

i'm sure it's run when cron deamon is started. which is when system boots 
but - when doing say /etc/rc.d/cron restart - too.