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Date:      Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:22:26 +0100
From:      Pietro Cerutti <gahr@gahr.ch>
To:        navneet Upadhyay <navneet.upadhyay@gmail.com>,  User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: script to be executed on system startup.
Message-ID:  <47A9C2A2.1070100@gahr.ch>
In-Reply-To: <1563a4fd0802060609j59451879h3920be790d7667c0@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <1563a4fd0802060609j59451879h3920be790d7667c0@mail.gmail.com>

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navneet Upadhyay wrote:
> Hi,

Hello,

>       I have a script file, i want that script to be executed on system=

> startup.
>=20
>  I am doing this on Linux in following two steps : -
>=20
> 1. Copying the script to /etc/rc.d directory.
> 2. /sbin/chkconfig --add "scriptname"
>=20
>=20
> I want to achieve the same on FreeBSD
>=20
> chckconfig file is not present, documentation says i have to add it to
> rc.conf file.
>=20
> How can i add it to rc.conf file, is there any command?

you just edit rc.conf and you add a line in the form

<your_script_name>_enable=3D"YES"

Then you place the script <your_script_name> in /usr/local/etc/rc.d

at the bottom of the rc(8) man page there are a few examples on how to
build such a script.

--=20
Pietro Cerutti

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