Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 12:45:37 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Manually starting RCng scripts disabled in rc.conf Message-ID: <20040517174537.GK80376@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <40A8FA16.9030401@circlesquared.com> References: <200405170951.25763.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> <20040517172712.GJ80376@dan.emsphone.com> <40A8FA16.9030401@circlesquared.com>
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In the last episode (May 17), Peter Risdon said: > In similar situations, I change > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/whatever.sh > > to > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/whatever.sh.notnow > > (or any other suffix) so it doesn't start at boot time, then start it > up when I want with > > #/usr/local/etc/rc.d/whatever.sh.notnow start > > and stop it again in the obvious way. I'd be interested to know what > the drawbacks to this approach are. The only drawback to that is if you upgrade the port, it'll stick a new copy of "whatever.sh" in rc.d for you. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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