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From: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Joe <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com>
Subject: Re: How to manually start firewall after system completed boot.
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Le Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:25:46 -0400,
Joe <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> a écrit :

Hello,

> 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?

You can use onestart/onestop if the service is not enabled in rc.conf.

service pf onestart
or /etc/rc.d/pf onestart

Regard