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From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
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Subject: Re: Question about current rc scripts
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> What is the correct way for 6-STABLE to achieve what I want to do?
> (i.e. write the rc.conf from a rc script)

I thought rc.conf was simply a script that set some variables. If
this is the case then you don't need to overwrite it - you simply need to
make your script set the appropriate variables and then drop it in as
a repplacement for rc.conf - hence no need to rewrite rc.conf at all.

-pcf.