In message <1140278303.485.7.camel@localhost>, "Jared D. McNeill" writes:

Shouldn't this

>3. Apply the following patch to your /etc/rc:
>  --- /usr/src/etc/rc     2003-01-04 11:27:43.000000000 -0400
>  +++ rc  2006-02-18 11:35:56.000000000 -0400
>  @@ -37,11 +37,17 @@
>  
>   date
>  
>  +/sbin/wsconsctl -d -w splash.progress=1 >/dev/null 2>&1
>   files=$(rcorder -s nostart ${rc_rcorder_flags} /etc/rc.d/*)
>  
>   for _rc_elem in $files; do
>  +       /sbin/wsconsctl -d -w splash.progress=1 >/dev/null 2>&1
>          run_rc_script $_rc_elem start
>   done
>  
>   date
>  +
>  +/sbin/wsconsctl -d -w splash.enable=0 >/dev/null 2>&1
>  +TERM=vt220 clear
>  +
>   exit 0


simply be conditional on some variable in rc.conf?  

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb