On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:05:10PM +0100, Xavier HUMBERT wrote:
  | In message <20020227202506.70E54B5@proven.weird.com>,
  | Greg A. Woods wrote:
  | 
  | >   ipmon_flags="-s &"
  | >
  | >(I've not actually tried that -- I'll bet the quoting is all wrong and
  | >the '&' will be seen by the shell at the wrong time....  ;-)
  | 
  | Been there, done that ! Yes it does confuse the shell :-) I tried it for
  | another script (safe_mysql). The only way is to use a custom start_proc,
  | and only ther, add the &

Or set command_args in the rc.d script; look at rc.subr(8) for info
and /etc/rc.d/xfs for an example.

Luke.