Port startup scripts under rcNG?

Lucky Green shamrock at cypherpunks.to
Sat May 10 14:23:32 PDT 2003


Doug wrote:
> On Sat, 10 May 2003, Lucky Green wrote:
> 
> > What is the correct place in the FreeBSD file system for a Port 
> > startup script that executes a program as a specific user 
> under rcNG?
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't truly understand your question. Is there 
> some specific feature of rcNG that you want to use in your 
> script, or do you just want to make sure it will still run 
> under rcNG? If the latter, you're covered, since ports 
> startup scripts are still executed from /usr/local/etc/rc.d 
> just like they always were.

You covered the answer. I was wondering if the sentence "old-style
scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/" in man rc should be taken as an
indication that this location is being depreciated for all start-up
scripts, including Ports.

Thanks,
--Lucky



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