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Subject: Re: RC keywords question
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Hopefully by new your actual question has been adequately answered, however 
I wanted to reemphasize one point from this thread because it will be very 
important for port authors to understand as we move into the world of ports 
being run as part of the base rcorder.

The REQUIRE line does not guarantee that a service will be running when your 
script starts, it only specifies to rcorder what has to happen before this 
script is run. Therefore, your application must handle any error conditions 
that may result if the service you depend on is not actually running when 
your script tries to run.

hth,

Doug

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