From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 01:21:57 2005 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 303C016A4EB for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 01:21:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.nativenerds.com (host-70-0-111-24.midco.net [24.111.0.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CAE943D60 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 01:21:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from estover@nativenerds.com) Received: from [192.168.1.89] (host-133-35-230-24.midco.net [24.230.35.133]) j4A1alAX052557; Mon, 9 May 2005 19:36:48 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from estover@nativenerds.com) Message-ID: <42800CE2.10805@nativenerds.com> Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 19:22:42 -0600 From: Ed Stover Organization: Native Nerds User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050503) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Foo Ji-Haw References: <427EE0F2.3090709@nexlabs.com> <20050509064637.GA83454@xor.obsecurity.org> <427F1434.8050805@nexlabs.com> In-Reply-To: <427F1434.8050805@nexlabs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on mail.nativenerds.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: *_enable = "YES" for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: estover@nativenerds.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 01:21:57 -0000 Foo Ji-Haw wrote: > Last time I used FreeBSD (4.3), I can start services with just > apache2.sh start. Now everything needs to be explicitly turned on via > rc.conf (apache2_enable="YES"). Is this rcNG as mentioned in the > handbook? Where can I find documentation for this? > > Is there any way I can still turn start/ stop the services at rc.d/ ? > > Sorry, one last question: if I changed rc.conf, how can I get the system > to reload this script without rebooting? I am not a big fan of rcsubr but every one else likes it lol I thinkhow it is done is 1. modify rc.conf ( add program_enable="YES" ) 2. then run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/program.sh start 3. done, with none of that nasty rebooting too. rebooting is for wimps ;)