From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 09:51:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E911816A4CF for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 09:51:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (mailtest.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C46E43D5E for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 09:51:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C5C4733C2 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 09:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailtest.sd73.bc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailtest.sd73.bc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 68568-04 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 09:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.166] (unknown [192.168.0.166]) by mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67F8B73330 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 09:51:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Freddie Cash To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 09:51:25 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Organization: School District 73 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405170951.25763.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at sd73.bc.ca Subject: Manually starting RCng scripts disabled in rc.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 16:51:35 -0000 Is it possible to manually run an rcNG-style script with app_enable=NO in /etc/rc.conf? For instance, there are a few services that I don't want running all the time on my laptop (like Apache, Squid, DansGuardian) but that I need running now and then for development / testing purposes. As such, I have apache_enable="NO" in my rc.conf to prevent Apache from starting at boot time. However, this also means that I cannot manually start Apache when I need it running, unless I use apachectl or run the httpd binary directly. And I can't use the RCng script to check the status, or restart, or any of the other nice things that RCng gives me. It would be much simpler/nicer if I could use the rcNG script to do this. Am I missing something simple, or is it just not possible to do what I want? I'd like to use the rc.d scripts to control everything, but if I have to enable them all in rc.conf and then manually stop them after each boot, I'll most likely end up writing my own non-RCng wrapper scripts for each app. :( Please CC: me as I'm not subscribed to questions@. -- Freddie Cash fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca