I need to add commands that starts every time at system boot.

[Chris Rees]

2009/6/7 Clifton Royston <cliftonr at lava.net>:
> On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 04:12:41PM -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Chris Rees<utisoft at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > 2009/6/7 Clifton Royston <cliftonr at lava.net>:
>> >
>> >> If you feel you just *can't* do it via a script in
>> >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d, which is the better way, add a script called
>> >> /etc/rc.local and that will be run after all the other start-up steps.
>> >
>> > What's wrong with rc.local?
>>
>> Probably stems from this discussion:
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-July/035996.html
>
>  No, I hadn't actually seen that discussion before.
>
>  I used to work on BSD/OS, which had only the rc.local mechanism, and
> when I first switched over to FreeBSD it was what I used.  Eventually I
> got my head around the /etc/rc.d and /usr/local/etc/rc.d mechanism and
> found it distinctly superior, so now I use it almost exclusively.
>
>  Major highlights as to why are:
>
>  * You can readily implement whatever additional operations your service
>   should support, such as restart/shutdown/whatever;
>  * you can add or remove different services as discrete entities,
>   without having to merge their change or removal into a single text
>   file;
>  * the startup/shutdown script can therefore readily be packaged for
>   removal/installation together with any other software for the
>   service in question;
>  * you can get your service or operation run in a specific order
>   relative to other services;
>  * you can use the same script to start, shutdown, or restart the
>   service at another time if appropriate or necessary
>
>  It used to be a little harder to write them than a few lines in
> rc.local, but now sourcing rc_subr provides shell functions which make
> it trivial.
>
>  These days I only use rc.local if I need to do some kind of
> non-critical quick hack, e.g. for troubleshooting a problem.
>  -- Clifton
>
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Nice, thanks a lot, didn't know about rc_subr. Thanks Scott too.

Chris

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