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Date:      Sun, 17 Dec 2000 20:57:15 -0500
From:      "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        "Otter" <otterr@telocity.com>, "Randy Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>, "Drew Tomlinson" <drewt@writeme.com>, "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to Get Program to Start Automatically Upon Boot
Message-ID:  <002901c06895$d92859d0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <HLEDJBJKDDPDJBMGCLPPEEKPCMAA.otterr@telocity.com>

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Furthermore, I believe someone (authoritative) mentioned a while ago on the
list that /etc/rc.local has been deprecated in favour of /usr/local/etc/rc.d
since the early days of 3.x, perhaps before.

--
Matt Emmerton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Otter" <otterr@telocity.com>
To: "Randy Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>; "Drew Tomlinson" <drewt@writeme.com>;
"FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 8:36 PM
Subject: RE: How to Get Program to Start Automatically Upon Boot


> Some of us don't have /etc/rc.local floating around on our drives. You
> can make scripts that start up as an .sh script in
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
> -Otter
>
>
> }-----Original Message-----
> }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Randy Katz
> }Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 8:22 PM
> }To: Drew Tomlinson; FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)
> }Subject: Re: How to Get Program to Start Automatically Upon Boot
> }
> }
> }hi, /etc/rc.local
> }
> }
> }
> }At 05:17 PM 12/17/2000 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> }>I have added a program to my system and would like it to start
> }>automatically upon boot.  I'm sure it's as simple as adding
> }the program
> }>name to some startup script but I don't know where that
> }would be.  So
> }>what file do I need to modify?
> }>
> }>Thanks for your help!
> }>
> }>Drew
> }>
> }>
> }>
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