Best Way to Start an App at Boot Time?

[robert]

On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 21:43 +0100, Martin Hudec wrote:
> 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

Chris,

rc.local is not normally used with later versions of Freebsd - see man
rc.local. 

The script should tell you how to use it, but normally it should be
added to /usr/local/etc/rc.d and called from /etc/rc.conf with something
like denyhosts="YES".

Rob