Best Way to Start an App at Boot Time?

[Beech Rintoul]

On Saturday 18 March 2006 11:40, 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?

You can also start your script at boot via cron. Use "@reboot" instead of the 
time settings on the crontab line (without the quotes). See man 5 crontab for 
more info.

Beech

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