From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 17 12:25:47 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6227DC78 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:25:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd8@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mail-03.name-services.com (mail-03.name-services.com [69.64.155.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5276F5E3 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:25:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.10.1] ([173.88.202.176]) by mail-03.name-services.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:25:48 -0700 Message-ID: <516E94CA.3070700@a1poweruser.com> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:25:46 -0400 From: Joe User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD questions Subject: How to manually start firewall after system completed boot. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Apr 2013 12:25:48.0261 (UTC) FILETIME=[B1004150:01CE3B66] X-Sender: fbsd8@a1poweruser.com X-Authenticated-Sender: fbsd8@a1poweruser.com X-EchoSenderHash: [fbsd8]-[a1poweruser*com] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:25:47 -0000 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. Thanks