From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 09:57:02 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 CD79F16A4CE; Mon, 17 May 2004 09:57:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mcp.lphp.org (ASt-Lambert-152-2-4-134.w82-120.abo.wanadoo.fr [82.120.204.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD5D43D2F; Mon, 17 May 2004 09:57:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajacoutot@lphp.org) Received: from bsdbox.lphp.local (bsdbox.lphp.local [192.168.0.2]) by mcp.lphp.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4HGuxRm084855; Mon, 17 May 2004 18:56:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ajacoutot@lphp.org) From: Antoine Jacoutot To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 18:56:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200405170951.25763.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <200405170951.25763.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405171856.58454.ajacoutot@lphp.org> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Manually starting RCng scripts disabled in rc.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 16:57:02 -0000 On Monday 17 May 2004 18:51, Freddie Cash wrote: > 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. :( What you could do is comment "apache_enable=yes" in rc.conf when you're not using it. Then if you need to start apache later on, just uncomment the line then do a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache start Antoine