Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 01:57:50 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com> Cc: User questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to not start syslogd Message-ID: <d7195cff0801022357i43c9420du41ebc10eb4bf89f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4779071A.2020506@pixelhammer.com> References: <542F8326-4A77-42AA-9FFF-CB8C6AD8756A@goldmark.org> <20071230234432.3389a010.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <3B585815-EC68-400E-901D-A594402DD874@goldmark.org> <4779071A.2020506@pixelhammer.com>
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On 31/12/2007, DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com> wrote: > Small hint shown to me many years ago when enabling things in rc.conf. > If I want to startup ipfilter for example (trimmed to avoid wrapping). > > bash-2.05b# cat /etc/defaults/rc.conf | grep ^ipfilter > > Returns the following, > ipfilter_enable="NO" # Set to YES to enable ipfilter > ipfilter_program="/sbin/ipf" # where the ipfilter program lives > ipfilter_rules="/etc/ipf.rules" # rules definition file for ipfilter, > ipfilter_flags="" # additional flags for ipfilter > > If it looks like what you want then write it into your running rc.conf, > > cat /etc/defaults/rc.conf | grep ^ipfilter >> /etc/rc.conf > cat not needed, as grep accepts filenames and < as in grep ^ipfilter /etc/defaults/rc.conf or the above with | $PAGER appended grep ^ipfilter /etc/defaults/rc.conf >> /etc/rc.conf grep ^allsc < /etc/defaults/rc.conf | less sorry, just trying to prevent cat abuse -- --
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