Subject: Re: rc.d scripts and "shutdown" keyword
To: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/12/2002 00:58:19
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 03:55:11PM +0200, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
| Hi!
|
| I've changed (ver 1.2) the newly added /etc/rc.d/ipfs script
| to check if ipfs=YES in rc.conf. Without this fix the script
| might complain about unset $ipfs.
|
| The ipfs script is always executed because of the "shutdown"
| keyword. And now my question: is there any better way to
| handle this (i.e. scripts which are always executed even
| though the corresponding variable might be unset)?
I've backed out that change, because it's not correct.
There's a reason for the warning about an unset variable; it
generally means that the user has an out-of-date
/etc/defaults/rc.conf.
Luke.