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Subject: Re: Best place to start a misc program at bootup
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>    So there's /etc/rc, and etc/rc.local, and then there's the fancy
rc.conf
> scripts which stat programs. /etc/rc and /etc/rc.local don't appear to be
> "designated" places for starting up misc. programs, so where do we put
these
> misc programs which we want to run at startup?

Take a look in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/.