From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 17 13:06:40 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 899298E8 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:06:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from smtp.rcn.com (smtp.rcn.com [69.168.97.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55FC0815 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:06:39 +0000 (UTC) X_CMAE_Category: 0,0 Undefined,Undefined X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=cIpiQyiN c=1 sm=0 a=nVny9ETX7T5uMhI2oTVyRA==:17 a=WcSOCXuzlF8A:10 a=AaUjGI9IrlcA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=OA2lqS22AAAA:8 a=sIt-5M63AAAA:8 a=exXZXmZpDiAA:10 a=yR-JbeZEVYBDJSwXEzoA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=nVny9ETX7T5uMhI2oTVyRA==:117 X-CM-Score: 0 X-Scanned-by: Cloudmark Authority Engine Authentication-Results: smtp02.rcn.cmh.synacor.com header.from=roberthuff@rcn.com; sender-id=neutral Authentication-Results: smtp02.rcn.cmh.synacor.com smtp.mail=roberthuff@rcn.com; spf=neutral; sender-id=neutral Received-SPF: neutral (smtp02.rcn.cmh.synacor.com: 209.6.193.164 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of rcn.com) Received: from [209.6.193.164] ([209.6.193.164:58150] helo=jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) by smtp.rcn.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.49 r(42060/42061)) with ESMTP id 80/8A-22205-E5E9E615; Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:06:39 -0400 From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <20846.40542.33912.779263@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:06:38 -0400 To: Joe Subject: How to manually start firewall after system completed boot. In-Reply-To: <516E94CA.3070700@a1poweruser.com> References: <516E94CA.3070700@a1poweruser.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 22) "Instant Classic" XEmacs Lucid Cc: FreeBSD questions 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 13:06:40 -0000 Joe writes: > 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. The "boot process", as used here, is simply a series of calls to various scripts in /etc/rc.d ... any of which can (theoretically) be invoked by itself. The details of this may be important; _please_ do more research before blowing yourself up. :-) Robert Huff