Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:06:09 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questionable feature- rcvar woes Message-ID: <20071128200609.GD35339@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200711282116.53008.antik@bsd.ee> References: <200711282116.53008.antik@bsd.ee>
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In the last episode (Nov 28), Andrei Kolu said: > 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. Try "/etc/rc.d/powerd forcestop". What happens during startup and shutdown is that all rc.d scripts are run with "start" or "stop" arguments, and only the ones that have been enabled do anything. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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