Best Way to Start an App at Boot Time?

Rob W. rob at fiberuplink.com
Sat Mar 18 20:45:05 UTC 2006


Create the file /etc/rc.local and put your startup program's in there.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Maness" <chris at chrismaness.com>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 2:40 PM
Subject: Best Way to Start an App at Boot Time?


>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?
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