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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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> Setting the variables can't work. As far as I can see, rc.conf is 
> sourced from rc.subr. And every single script in /etc/rc.d/ sources 
> rc.subr, so they reload the rc.conf file for each call.

Actually I was suggesting you overwrite rc.conf *itself* with the variable
setting code - so every script which reloads it gets the variables set.
Surely that would work ? Though it would mean your code would be run
multiple times...

-pete.