Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:55:49 +0000 From: robert <bsd@bathnetworks.com> To: Free BSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Best Way to Start an App at Boot Time? Message-ID: <1142715349.9273.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <441C710F.6010704@aeternal.net> References: <441C702B.2070202@chrismaness.com> <441C710F.6010704@aeternal.net>
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On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 21:43 +0100, Martin Hudec wrote: > Hello Chris, > > Chris Maness wrote: > > I like the rc.conf file idea that FreeBSD uses to start daemons. I have > > a python script (i.e. denyhosts.py) that I would like to launch in a > > daemon mode at boot time. How would I add this as an option for > > rc.conf, or is there a better more "official" way to do this? > > Put it in /etc/rc.local perhaps? > > Cheers, > Martin Chris, rc.local is not normally used with later versions of Freebsd - see man rc.local. The script should tell you how to use it, but normally it should be added to /usr/local/etc/rc.d and called from /etc/rc.conf with something like denyhosts="YES". Rob
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