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Date:      Tue, 6 Dec 2016 13:07:38 -0600
From:      Eric van Gyzen <vangyzen@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ravi Pokala <rpokala@mac.com>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r309625 - head/sbin/rcorder
Message-ID:  <b33b9428-d753-f5dc-28af-e51feebb2c45@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <D3F01801-07D7-4218-8ED7-E2D3ED9EE8D7@panasas.com>
References:  <201612061549.uB6Fndxo044249@repo.freebsd.org> <D3F01801-07D7-4218-8ED7-E2D3ED9EE8D7@panasas.com>

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On 12/06/2016 11:30, Ravi Pokala wrote:
> For grins, I ran this on my build server. The resulting graph is...
> complex. But one thing was immediately clear: neither
> /etc/rc.d/dhclient and /etc/rc.d/natd depend on anything. That seems
> wrong: I would expect them to have some sort of dependency on
> NETWORKING, either BEFORE (since dhclient may be involved in bringing
> up the network) or REQUIRE (since it doesn’t make sense to run a
> networking daemon like natd before networking is up).

I saw that, too.  I'm pretty sure they're not called directly, but are
called from other scripts, such as network.subr and ipfw, respectively.
They certainly /look/ like they can be called directly.  Maybe that's
leftover from an older style of configuration?  I defer to the rc experts.

Eric



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