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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: where do daemons go?
Date: 8 Jan 1996 13:09:01 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com> writes:
> Can someone tell me where I should register the /etc/radiusd command so 
> that it starts up automatically when the system is started?

Btw., don't place binaries into /etc.  Better put it into
/usr/local/sbin.  (RTFM hier(7))

> The documentation suggested rc.local, but there doesn't seem to be 
> anything in there like that.

Of course, there is an /etc/rc.local file.  It is sourced at the end
of /etc/rc during system initialisation.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)