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Make sure we explicitly mention that scripts that are used to start

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services from /usr/local/etc/rc.d have to be executable and need an
extension of .sh to be picked up by /etc/rc at startup & shutdown.

Inspired by:	A question by Ryan Hill <rhill@xypoint.com> on
		freebsd-questions.
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Giorgos Keramidas 2002-04-23 02:15:00 +00:00
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Notes: svn2git 2020-12-08 03:00:23 +00:00 
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exit 0
</programlisting>
<para>This script is called with <option>start</option>
at startup, and the <option>stop</option> at shutdown to allow
it to carry out its purpose.</para>
<para>The startup scripts of FreeBSD will look in
<filename>/usr/local/etc/rc.d</filename> for scripts that have an
<literal>.sh</literal> extension and are executable by root. Those
scripts that are found are called with an option <option>start</option>
at startup, and <option>stop</option> at shutdown to allow them to carry
out their purpose. So if you wanted the above sample script to be
picked up and run at the proper time during system startup, you should
save it to a file called <filename>FooBar.sh</filename> in
<filename>/usr/local/etc/rc.d</filename> and make sure it's
executable. You can make a shell script executable with &man.chmod.1;
as shown below:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>chmod 755 <replaceable>FooBar.sh</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<para>Some services expect to be invoked by &man.inetd.8; when a
connection is received on a suitable port. This is common for