If you look around you should still be able to find Luke Mewburn's paper on #MewburnRC .

Similarly, what Linux people erroneously call "sysvinit" is actually van Smoorenburg init+rc created (by Miquel van Smoorenburg) for Minix in 1992.

It's not from #Unix System 5 at all, as that had obsoleted R3's init+rc system years before 1992 and gone on to the AIX SRC, and the SAF, SAC, ttymon, SMF, and stuff still in #Illumos today.

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@amin @fbievan @rl_dane

#rc #init

@rl_dane @fbievan @amin

Don't use rc.local. It has been obsolete since 1983. #FreeBSD has actually discontinued it twice in its history.

FreeBSD has had Mewburn rc for most of this century. It's what #NetBSD uses and #OpenBSD has a similar but NIH system. At minimum, use Mewburn rc scripts.

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The rc(8) manual page has an example script. There's tutorial doco as well.

docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/r…

#rc #MewburnRC