*_enable = "YES" for FreeBSD

Foo Ji-Haw jhfoo at nexlabs.com
Mon May 9 20:27:22 PDT 2005


Thanks. I'm just reading up on rcNG. Apparently it's been implemented on 
4.10 onwards iianm.

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:

>
> 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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