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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:10:23 -0600
From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To: Andy Firman <andy@firman.us>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d  vs  /etc/rc.conf question
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--On Thursday, December 02, 2004 07:39:00 AM -0900 Andy Firman 
<andy@firman.us> wrote:

>
> I just took over a FreeBSD box and there is a
> proftpd.sh script in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory.
>
> There is also this entry in /etc/rc.conf:
> proftpd_enable="YES"
>
> There is no need for entries in /etc/rc.conf
> if the script exists in /usr/local/etc/rc.d right?
>
If you remove the /etc/rc.conf entry, you can still start the daemon 
manually (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/proftpd.sh start), but it will not start on 
boot.

<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcng.html>

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
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