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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:25:54 +0100
From:      Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: not adding daemons to rc.conf
Message-ID:  <20060831032554.GA84168@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
In-Reply-To: <200608302047.06425.freebsd@dfwlp.com>
References:  <200608302047.06425.freebsd@dfwlp.com>

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On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:47:06PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote:
> ive noticed that apache can be started manually using the apachectl tool,=
 even> if it is not enabled in /etc/rc.conf.  do many other daemons have th=
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> ability?  i have a dev server that i would like to not have many things=
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> enabled in the rc.conf, but i would like an easy way to just start specif=
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> daemons when i need.

There is the "force" modifier which may be of help/interest.  It works
like this:

 # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/script forcestart

This will, well, force the script to run, even if it's not explicitly
enabled in /etc/rc.conf.

Close to what you want?

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Daniel Bye

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