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Warren Block:
 > Possibly simpler to provide a list in one setting than an individual 
setting for each daemon.  With ideas from other posters:
 > >  oomprotect_daemons="crond syslogd"

Let me add my voice to Ian Lepore,  Willem Jan Withagen, Allan Jude, and 
Alan Somers.  M. Withagen makes a good point that this is difficult to 
machine-update and manage with system and package management tools.  I 
add to that, from the point of view of one whose programs will have to 
parse this, it's difficult to machine-parse.  One has to process two 
levels of quoting (if one is doing it safely).  This really is not a 
simpler mechanism for the computers.  The simpler rc.conf mechanism 
definitely is the straightforward per-service yes/no 
${service}_oomprotect flag.

And that's what I have just implemented in my toolset.  Yes, I've used 
the name "oomprotect", M. Lapore.  (-:

root # rcctl get syslogd
flags=-c -ss
root # rcctl set syslogd oomprotect YES
root # rcctl get syslogd
flags=-c -ss
oomprotect=YES
root # cat "`rcctl find syslogd`"/service/run
#!/bin/nosh
#Run file generated from services/syslogd.service
#Vanilla BSD syslog daemon
oom-kill-protect -- fromenv
envdir env
sh -c "exec syslogd ${flags}"
root #