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From: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@math.ku.dk>
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Subject: Re: why my daemon did not start
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Foo JH wrote:

> Hi all, I'm trying to write a simple RC script to run my little Perl script as a daemon. The script is as follows:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> portal_enable=${portal_enable-"NO"}
> portal_flags=${portal_flags-""}

you should correct these: to set the default value use ':-'

> . /etc/rc.subr

Using this you need to enable the script in /etc/rc.conf

Erik