Re: Running /etc/rc.firewall in the background

chael_at_southgate.ph.inter.net
Date: 09/11/03

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    To: "Mark" <admin@asarian-host.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 21:42:08 +0800

    hmmm... /etc/rc.firewall is not an executable script. You should start with
    this:
    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls.html
    If you have the necessary options in your kernel, you can make it start vi
    rc.conf or a simple sh script placed in a startup dir. Eitherway, running
    ipfw rules shouldn't take more than a second or two.

    > 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
    >
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