Re: rc scripts telling you when they will not start

To: matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: rc scripts telling you when they will not start
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 17:15:10 -0500

On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 10:40:26AM -0500, matthew sporleder wrote:
>
> One thing that has always bothered me about netbsd rc is that running
> an rc script will often silently do nothing.

That's intentional.

> 
> If a service is turned NO by default in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, and you
> run /etc/rc.d/foo start, you get nothing + a 0 return status.

Why on earth would you want to make the system boot scream about every
service that's turned off?

References:
- rc scripts telling you when they will not start
  - From: matthew sporleder

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