rc.subr modification: testing and feedback are welcome!

[Gerard Seibert]

On Wednesday November 15, 2006 at 12:32:56 (PM) Pietro Cerutti wrote:


> Hello List,
> I did a patch to allow rc.conf DAEMON_enable values to be decided at startup.
> 
> 1) set apache_start="ask" in rc.conf
> 2) at boot, you'll be prompted with "RC_ASK - Enable apache? [yes|no] "
> 3) the daemon is started depending on the decision
> 4) the decision is stored until the next boot, so that rc.shutdown can
> decide whether to call stop for a particular daemon or not
> 
> See:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=105568
> for more information and to download the patch


I have been looking for something to supply exactly that sort of
flexibility for quite some time now. I will be installing it forthwith.


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Gerard

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