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Date:      Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:23:54 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
To:        John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: moused insists on starting
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>

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In response to John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>:

> 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.

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