Starting up local daemons and configuration For other daemons which you might install on the system via packages or other ways, you could use the / etc/rc.local file. For example, I've installed a daemon which lies at /usr/local/sbin/daemonx. I want it to
start at boot time. I could put an entry into /etc/rc.local like this:
if [ -x /usr/local/sbin/daemonx ]; then
echo -n ' daemonx'; /usr/local/sbin/daemonx
fi
(If the daemon does not automatically detach on startup, remember to add a "&" at the end of the
command line.)
From now on, this daemon will be started at boot. You will be able to see any errors on boot, a normal
boot with no errors would show a line like this:
Starting local daemons: daemonx.
The /etc/rc.d/ directory Starting with OpenBSD 4.9, you have another option for
packages
. Most packages will now install a
startup script in
/etc/rc.d to handle their startup and shutdown. This is used ONLY for add-on applications,
the base system does not use any scripts in this directory.
Note that rather than having each script in rc.d managing the entire startup, shutdown, reload, restart, and
check operations, most rc.d scripts can be reduced to specifying a very few variables, and invoking the
rc.
subr
script, which manages most of the standard way of doing these tasks.
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rc.shutdown /etc/rc.shutdown is a script that is run at shutdown. Anything you want done before the system shuts down
should be added to this file. If you have apm, you can also set "powerdown=YES", which will give you
the equivalent of "shutdown -p".
10.4 - Why do users get "relaying denied" when they are
