*_enable = "YES" for FreeBSD

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC chad at shire.net
Mon May 9 09:49:43 PDT 2005


On May 9, 2005, at 2:03 AM, Rob wrote:

> 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/ ?
>>
>
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh forcestart

Also, if you have old style rc scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d they  
will run as well I believe -- without the enable.

Chad



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