How to manually start firewall after system completed boot.

[Robert Huff]

Joe writes:

>  I have special purpose situation where I need to wait until the boot 
>  process has completed the starting of the system and then start the 
>  firewall (ipfw or pf). Commenting out the firewall statements from the 
>  hosts /etc/rc.conf does stop the firewall from starting at boot time.
>  
>  Is there some format of the service command that could be used to 
>  manually start the selected firewall?
>  
>  Any ideas on how to accomplish this is welcome.

	The "boot process", as used here, is simply a series of calls
to various scripts in /etc/rc.d ... any of which can (theoretically)
be invoked by itself.  The details of this may be important;
_please_ do more research before blowing yourself up.  :-)


					Robert Huff