Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:24:05 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: not adding daemons to rc.conf Message-ID: <44FCB595.2030706@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <44F644DC.8030007@web.de> References: <200608302047.06425.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <44F644DC.8030007@web.de>
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Jona Joachim wrote: > 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 this >> ability? i have a dev server that i would like to not have many things >> enabled in the rc.conf, but i would like an easy way to just start specific >> daemons when i need. > > Take a look at /usr/local/etc/rc.d > You will see several scripts belonging to server applications you > installed. Each one of these scripts can start or stop the service. > For example: > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh start > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh stop > > When you put something into rc.conf it is actually this script that is > executed, so every daemon that can be enabled in rc.conf can also be > started/stopped using those scripts. But the scripts check rc.conf so they still have to be enabled in rc.conf unless you use forcestart... box# grep pf_enable /etc/rc.conf box# pwd /etc/rc.d box# ./pf start box# echo pf_enable=\"YES\" >> /etc/rc.conf box# grep pf_enable /etc/rc.conf pf_enable="YES" box# ./pf start Enabling pf. No ALTQ support in kernel ALTQ related functions disabled No ALTQ support in kernel ALTQ related functions disabled box# Chris
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