Best Way to Start an App at Boot Time?

Martin Hudec corwin at aeternal.net
Sat Mar 18 20:46:23 UTC 2006


Hello Chris,

Chris Maness wrote:
> I like the rc.conf file idea that FreeBSD uses to start daemons.  I have 
> a python script (i.e. denyhosts.py) that I would like to launch in a 
> daemon mode at boot time.  How would I add this as an option for 
> rc.conf, or is there a better more "official" way to do this?

Put it in /etc/rc.local perhaps?

Cheers,
Martin


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