----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack L. Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 3:37 PM Subject: Re: Running /etc/rc.firewall in the background
> At 01:16 PM 9.11.2003 GMT, Mark wrote: > >I have quite a few firewall rules (FreeBSD 4.7R). This causes the > >server start-up to take several minutes extra. I wanted to have the > > rules loaded in the background; like so: > > > >firewall_script="/etc/rc.firewall &" > > > >But, alas, that does not work. :( Is there a way to do this at all? > > > >Thanks! > > > >- Mark > > > > Yes, but use this instead (if "firewall is your rules script file"): > # /bin/sh /etc/rc.firewall & Yes, that is what I tried to accomplish. I found where /etc/rc.firewall is loaded, and changed it accordingly in /etc/rc.network: if [ -r "${firewall_script}" ]; then . "${firewall_script}" & Solved. :) - Mark _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"