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Subject: Re: rc.d script for running multiple VirtualBox VMs from
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On 4/12/2011 12:15 PM, Tobias Oberstein wrote:
> I wanted to configure multiple VirtualBox VMs to startup automatically at boot time and generally be a nice citizen to the FreeBSD way of starting up stuff.

Thanks for providing this, however there are several problems, some of 
which you outlined in your post.

The canonical way to do what you're suggesting is to copy the script so 
that you have one script per process you want to start, each with a 
different $name. That way you avoid a lot of the complexity that you've 
created, and everything works.


hth,

Doug

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