script to be executed on system startup.

[Ivan Voras]

Ivan Voras wrote:

> An advanced feature ...

I'd like to add some more info on the subject: the rc.d script mechanism
is extremely powerful and you can do many things with it, if you need
them. Scripts are passed arguments like "start" and "stop" which you
might want to handle (though "stop" is handled specially and by default,
BSD's don't call "stop" unless specifically asked for; they send
SIGTERM), they can automatically handle PID files so daemons are started
and stopped "gracefully" without any special support from the
applications or the script writer. It's an extraordinarily good subsystem.


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