For reasons that aren't clear to me, cron no longer starts at 
boot. I can't make a lot of sense of the rc script to start it, 
either: the functions called by rc.subr are too subtle for me. It 
seems to work if I invoke it with sh -x and look at the output. I 
can use stop|start|restart|status and all see fine.

is there something I can do with /etc/rc to check what it's doing? 
I have looked at the files array and it seems OK:

files=`rcorder -s nostart /etc/rc.d/*`; echo $files
(lots 'o output).





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