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 Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d vs /etc/rc.conf question Message-ID: <A62E611EBDA3E55081ACC696@utd49554.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20041202163900.GA14829@akroteq.com> References: <20041202163900.GA14829@akroteq.com>
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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) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu
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