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Things look quiet here. But I've been doing a lot of blogging at
dan.langille.org because I prefer WordPress now.
Not all my posts there are FreeBSD related.
I am in the midst of migrating The FreeBSD Diary over to WordPress
(and you can read about that here).
Once the migration is completed, I'll move the FreeBSD posts into the
new FreeBSD Diary website.
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how to start things at boot time
5 December 1999
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See also Starting stuff at boot time. This article talks
about how to get scripts to execute each time the box is rebooted. This is handy
for ensuring certain programs are always running.
[Note: the original article title was "/etc/autoexec.bat | how to start
things at boot time". This was discarded because the humour assumed a
familiarity with DOS.] |
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/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ is your friend
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The /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ directory is one of the default startup
directories. If you look at /etc/defaults/rc.conf, you'll find this:
# grep local_start /etc/defaults/rc.conf
local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d"
This setting determines which directories are scanned for shell scripts at startup.
Executable files within these directories are run in alphabetical order. If
you need the files to be executed in a specific order, try numbering the files. For
example:
000This.Will.Run.First.sh
020This.Will.Run.Next.sh
030And.Then.This.sh
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/etc/rc.local was your friend
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| At one time, /etc/rc.local was the file into which you placed calls to the
various start up scripts. This feature remains for backwards compatibility but it
has been deprecated. Use /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ instead. |
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