In message <Pine.NEB.3.96.971207210817.22627B-100000@black-star.demon.co.uk>
          Mike Pumford <mpumford@black-star.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> rc.conf controls the basic system configuration. The whole point of
> rc_configured is to do what it did for you to encourage you to set it up
> correctly for your machine.
>
> There currently quite a lot of debate on the NetBSD current-users mailing
> list as whether this feature is a good thing.

I think it's quite a good idea, but the error message could perhaps be a
bit more helpful and tell you to edit the file. I suppose that's against
the spirit of UNIX though ;-).

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