On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Luke Mewburn wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:41:54AM +0200, Juergen Tritthardt wrote:
>   |=20
>   | It seems that's not possible to start sshd manually like the other sc=
ripts
>   | in rc.d (for example /etc/rc.d/xdm start). Adding sshd=3DYES in rc.co=
nf
>   | solved the problem.
>=20
> Almost all of the rc.d scripts in the base system check an appropriate
> rc.conf(5) variable, and if that variable is 'no', the script won't
> start.  (E.g, in your example, xdm only starts because you have xdm=3Dyes=
)
>=20
> If you want to temporarily start a service no matter what the
> rc.conf(5) setting is, use "/etc/rc.d/sshd forcestart".

Seems I have to reread the rc.d documentation. :-)


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        J=FCrgen
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