Re: misc/48555: rc.conf handling of program=yes/no

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/48555; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/48555: rc.conf handling of program=yes/no
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:46:47 +0200

 On Mon, 27 Jan 2014, rnestor%tx.rr.com@localhost wrote:
 > The man page on rc.conf indicates that a program/package may be 
 > started on boot by including the line "program=YES" in rc.conf. 
 > It also indicates that the program may be disabled on boot by 
 > changing the line to "program=NO'.
 
 Please use reasonable length lines; don't represent an entire 
 paragraph as a single very long line.  I have re-wrapped your text 
 to something less than 80 characters per line.
 
 > For any line in the rc.conf file of the form "program=NO" an 
 > error is produced on system shutdown with the text "[NO not 
 > found".
 
 I could understand an error like that for a variable that might be 
 used as the name of a program instead of as a yes/no switch, but 
 surely not for all variables, and the square bracket in the error 
 message is also hard to explain.
 
 Please report the exact error message, and the exact line in 
 /etc/rc.conf.  The name of the variable is important, so please 
 don't change it to "program".
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)