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Old 27th February 2010
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As stated by jggimi, just adding a new variable to rc.conf/rc.conf.local won't automagically make things work.

The preferred method of starting 3rd party services at boot time is in rc.local(5), you probably should only start daemons/servers that properly support privilege separation using this method.

The alternative is to create a lesser privileged account and start it manually, if the software listens on a port <= 1024 by default, you can bind it to a higher port and use pf to redirect traffic.

Hope that helps.
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