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From: Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee>
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Subject: questionable feature- rcvar woes
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Something is wrong with rcvar or I am just blatant.

For example:

1) Enable powerd in rc.conf
# echo 'enable_powerd="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
2) Launch powerd
# /etc/rc.d/powerd start
Starting powerd.
3) And stopping it.
# /etc/rc.d/powerd stop
Stopping powerd.

Everything looks fine, but when I disable powerd in rc.conf then problem 
arise.

1) Disable powerd in rc.conf- comment it out.
# enable_powerd="YES"
2) Stop powerd
# /etc/rc.d/powerd stop
...silence- nothing in logs either.

What? Not even a warning message and powerd is actually running- why I have to 
reboot to disable it? I know that I can stop it by enabling it in rc.conf but 
what the point? Same problem when I want to start some service without 
appropriate line in rc.conf. I'd prefer to see somekind of warning about 
misconfigured rc.conf or at least information about what's going on in 
reality.

Andrei