Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:11:24 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org> To: Freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: load script at bootup Message-ID: <223ba4b925eeff50b090a8bd14840467@szalbot.homedns.org> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070823135819.0256fc60@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20070823135819.0256fc60@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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Hello, On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:59:37 -0500, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> wrote: > At 01:48 PM 8/23/2007, Narek Gharibyan wrote: >>#!/bin/sh >> >>Ping -Dc 3600 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx | tail -4 >>/root/stat && date >> > /root/stat >>&& echo "===========================" >> /root/stat >> >> >> >>I wrote this script for collecting ping statistic (after I email to a > group >>the stat file). >> >>1. how can I run this at startup > Add your script to root's crontab. do a man on crontab for the exact > syntax, but you can have it run @reboot then an interval. I also have a script that I want to start at boot time and I simply symlinked it to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ It starts fine but now I wonder if maybe this is not the proper way to start up scripts? -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.slowo.pl www.lcwords.com
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