From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 2 15:14:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2A214C84 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 15:14:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA93199; Fri, 3 Dec 1999 00:14:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3846FD80.32576374@nisser.com> Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 00:15:12 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: Annelise Anderson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: periodic daily reruns rc.conf.local? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton wrote: > > ... > as oppposed to the scripts doing it. Either way, you've hit upon the > solution, namely don't start anything in the conf files. They should hold > variable definitions only. Perhaps we need better warnings/documentation > on this, since this is the second time it's come up (that I've seen) in > the last month or so. I second that. As a kludge to get things working I selected the open firewall type and followed it up with a few ipfw add's to close what I wanted closed. In the same rc file, naturally. One of these days I'll fix it . Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. Telekabel home http://nisser.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message