Re: How to not start syslogd

Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
On Dec 30, 2007, at 10:44 PM, Bill Moran wrote:

Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Putting

syslogd_enable="NO"

into /etc/rc.conf did not prevent it from starting.

The above works on every system I've done it to (which is quite a few).

I suspect you've either got a typo in your rc.conf, [...]

Yep. It was a typo. I should let this be a reminder to always copy and
paste such things into email instead of retyping. What I had in my
rc.conf was really

syslog_enable="NO"

Notice the missing "d'.


Small hint shown to me many years ago when enabling things in rc.conf.
If I want to startup ipfilter for example (trimmed to avoid wrapping).

bash-2.05b# cat /etc/defaults/rc.conf | grep ^ipfilter

Returns the following,
ipfilter_enable="NO" # Set to YES to enable ipfilter
ipfilter_program="/sbin/ipf" # where the ipfilter program lives
ipfilter_rules="/etc/ipf.rules" # rules definition file for ipfilter,
ipfilter_flags="" # additional flags for ipfilter

If it looks like what you want then write it into your running rc.conf,

cat /etc/defaults/rc.conf | grep ^ipfilter >> /etc/rc.conf

Then you can edit to enable, add flags, etc. Cures the typos.

DAve


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