Freebsd rc troubleshooting

Force Starting Broken InitScripts

Sometimes, you don't have time to troubleshoot why a particular command is not working. You can get around this in two ways:

rc.local method

# /etc/rc.local
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/${MY_SERVICE} start # bypass rc.d init and run

crontab method

su
crontab -u

# crontab

@reboot  /usr/local/etc/rc.d/<my_service> start

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