From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 10:27:13 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 9BA2C16A4CE for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 10:27:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10BBB43D31 for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 10:27:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i4HHRCsY010578; Mon, 17 May 2004 12:27:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 12:27:12 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Freddie Cash Message-ID: <20040517172712.GJ80376@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200405170951.25763.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200405170951.25763.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i 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 17:27:13 -0000 In the last episode (May 17), Freddie Cash said: > 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. :( "forcestart" should do what you want, I think. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com