From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 15 17:51:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206D116A40F for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:51:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8233643D5A for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:51:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so274725wxc for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:51:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.43.8 with SMTP id q8mr3447432wxq.1163613103545; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:51:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net ( [67.189.184.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id i36sm1569401wxd.2006.11.15.09.51.43; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:51:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C5ABBFB; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:51:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (boss.seibercom.net [192.168.0.4]) (Authenticated sender: gerard@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CBC4BA56; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:51:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:51:44 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert To: User Questions Organization: Seibercom.NET In-Reply-To: References: X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20061115124938.BA9B.GERARD@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.28 [en] X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Subject: Re: rc.subr modification: testing and feedback are welcome! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: User Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:51:45 -0000 On Wednesday November 15, 2006 at 12:32:56 (PM) Pietro Cerutti wrote: > Hello List, > I did a patch to allow rc.conf DAEMON_enable values to be decided at startup. > > 1) set apache_start="ask" in rc.conf > 2) at boot, you'll be prompted with "RC_ASK - Enable apache? [yes|no] " > 3) the daemon is started depending on the decision > 4) the decision is stored until the next boot, so that rc.shutdown can > decide whether to call stop for a particular daemon or not > > See: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=105568 > for more information and to download the patch I have been looking for something to supply exactly that sort of flexibility for quite some time now. I will be installing it forthwith. -- Gerard Mail from '@gmail' is rejected and/or discarded here. Don't waste your time!