creating a startup script for a foreign application

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 at 11:31, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> Allow me an addition:
>
> You can find information about how to convert or construct
> a rc.d script in The Porter's Handbook:
>
>         6.26. Starting and Stopping Services (rc Scripts)
>
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/rc-scripts.html
>
> But as you already have a script that works, it would
> probably be easier to just create an "interface" to that
> script. There is a section in the article "Practical rc.d
> scripting in BSD" which might be helpful (and the article
> itself is worth reading):
>
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/rc-scripting/index.html
>
> Especially this section:
>
>         7. Connecting a script to the rc.d framework
>
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/rc-scripting/rcng-hookup.html
>
> I'm quite sure this is the easiest way to integrate the existing and
> working script with the requirements of rc.d.
>

Thank you. Let me take a look at this.

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