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Subject: Re: /usr/local/rc.d/apache22 start doesn't start Apache
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Quoting Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk>:

> I've been bitten by this a couple of times. Can anyone give me a hint to 
> where in the rc scripts I can add that one-liner to at least print 
> something like:
> 
>     $app not started. Please add $rcvar to /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> instead of just silently failing?

I would love to see this too.
This is definitely a usability issue when somethis is not working silently.

Yuri