Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:06:38 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Joe <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> Cc: FreeBSD questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How to manually start firewall after system completed boot. Message-ID: <20846.40542.33912.779263@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <516E94CA.3070700@a1poweruser.com> References: <516E94CA.3070700@a1poweruser.com>
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Joe writes: > I have special purpose situation where I need to wait until the boot > process has completed the starting of the system and then start the > firewall (ipfw or pf). Commenting out the firewall statements from the > hosts /etc/rc.conf does stop the firewall from starting at boot time. > > Is there some format of the service command that could be used to > manually start the selected firewall? > > Any ideas on how to accomplish this is welcome. The "boot process", as used here, is simply a series of calls to various scripts in /etc/rc.d ... any of which can (theoretically) be invoked by itself. The details of this may be important; _please_ do more research before blowing yourself up. :-) Robert Huff
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