From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 28 18:24:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E195416A47E for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:24:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39A0D43DBA for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:23:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:23:51 -0400 id 00056458.451C1337.00006535 Received: from Internal Mail-Server (206.210.89.202) by mx01 (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 28 Sep 2006 14:21:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:23:54 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: John Nielsen Message-Id: <20060928142354.6450b2e0.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <200609281416.56648.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <20060928140804.a7c302e8.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <200609281416.56648.lists@jnielsen.net> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moused insists on starting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:24:11 -0000 In response to John Nielsen : > On Thursday 28 September 2006 14:08, Bill Moran wrote: > > 6.1. Moused starts on boot, and issuing /etc/rc.d/moused stop has > > not effect. My /etc/rc.conf has the line: > > moused_enable="NO" > > yet the damn thing starts. > > Assuming you have a USB mouse, this is controlled by /etc/devd.conf > (or /etc/usbd.conf in older releases). Comment out or modify the ums/moused > entry to suit your preferences. Huh. I hate to be a whiner, but shouldn't this respect the moused_enable setting in rc.conf? I find this a violation of POLA. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. **************************************************************** IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. ****************************************************************