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Comments: In-reply-to Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org>
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> 
> You don't need to activate services early in the boot process. As I
> understand it, chkconfig is like gentoo's rc-update. It's just something
That's about what chkconfig does, it just tends to be an /sbin thing for
tradition (that's where it is on IRIX I believe)

> you run once you just installed something from ports (in our case).
> Anyway, that's the same as ${bla#\$}. Won't break whether you have a
Yeah, I just looked at my code and that's what it does. So I suppose the
point is moot, but I would definetly ask the NetBSD people why they did it
maybe they have a good reason.

> leading dollar or not.
> 
> --=20
> Florent Thoumie
> flz@FreeBSD.org
> FreeBSD Committer
>