Re: Best way to run command on system start
- In reply to: Polarian : "Best way to run command on system start"
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Date: Sat, 04 May 2024 17:26:21 UTC
On Sat, 4 May 2024 15:08:14 +0100, Polarian wrote: > [...] > I have read the forums and seen suggestions of using a rc service to > set the backlight on boot, however there must be a better way to do > this. Yes, a rc.d-style script is the recommended solution, but if everything you need to execute is just one simple command at system boot time, create /etc/rc.local and place it there, with full path. A typical /etc/rc.local would start with: #!/bin/sh if [ -z "${source_rc_confs_defined}" ]; then if [ -r /etc/defaults/rc.conf ]; then . /etc/defaults/rc.conf source_rc_confs elif [ -r /etc/rc.conf ]; then . /etc/rc.conf elif [ -r /etc/rc.conf.local ]; then . /etc/rc.conf.local fi fi This allows you to add custom options to /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf.local, and your own scripts can benefit from the defaults in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, if that's needed. It can then contain your commands, like echo -n " backlight" /usr/bin/backlight 50 It will print a "description" of the current task and then execute it. If you have more than one of such tasks, the console output will look like this: Starting local daemons: activity startsound parallel. But as it has been mentioned, /usr/local/etc/rc.d (or maybe even /opt/rc.d) is the proper thing to do if you need to run something more complicated. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...