From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Tue Jul 12 14:51:01 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E2E4B936B1 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:51:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x229.google.com (mail-wm0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::229]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6E64E1893 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:50:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x229.google.com with SMTP id f126so130431493wma.1 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:50:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3mO7ivuFw7p86/mU6pP0a1sgidDBZL3pLeEs7vP8si0=; b=OP02WKYFhd6A/1ZOZ21xoKW9CwHf3SA59/bX4gvniSkL1wVmSkXwXLT55q5BDall0A 3KfvCJ5wLo/RDJrYtWDzOrYiewZElpe9vkMKZXTMWGmU/8U30/Rne2rQmkDkje5MLfSH iO1w93DC3EJ2t3jaWl2ic7sj86m6YQ5t4qt/NCEY6nZkZelGBhh7RG1J3X1obLdUx4Bw y/IiQwrFqsAHyOrLS/zWjs8cF9+OZThf13qiGuDyA+AUnruauixtTI+v5h/vwj5keYSy P6xvczj+idpLcqWIy8as5314MG1HXhkooY5sZEqKzuuuv1pPBMaqaDwLthvr0f6YMY6R LnUg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3mO7ivuFw7p86/mU6pP0a1sgidDBZL3pLeEs7vP8si0=; b=CQmtb7GomrosvErIOohKqoCLaXehJR2NpfVD7XQvhQL0ChiFutgo239BQwMg8p7zFo XFKnX2RtDJ2krBf05Xw23Vox2ZoyJEEO5Sng2EE6NFcdVdShEB4Z0PHFisr0VkFxrsp+ kWX0Uc/rvq5iNe/Eae0CL7qBC1qnP9nFEFVYNW+e5VbpO832AYhEflgO2wMd0GSi6BMy 7PNHbpwA23xS8RkWNvar4YfLmzdzjza0WNd7okhmyx5Hh9x7KbTsAgeyWFPYNI5/hdkx RqfzU4woHiWd61KIsUGSRQgcnxBqxGsUEcEdl88Ygc/Y3/KnBX6QlcwRebWIeQhBM9Uy Tu+w== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tJtktT9PCX3BMe1hqvbfCtA6LCy/UQmPx32AxHjuQ2Wt2ASwpVd+Bt198heZG27ig== X-Received: by 10.28.22.144 with SMTP id 138mr22056454wmw.77.1468335057468; Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:50:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com ([81.171.59.112]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d64sm2403140wmc.22.2016.07.12.07.50.55 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Tue, 12 Jul 2016 07:50:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:50:53 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oversight in /etc/defaults/rc.conf Message-ID: <20160712155053.6b5a0d99@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <483d186c-ca63-60ef-5703-8a7ae37e9ced@freebsd.org> References: <20160712122732.GA5596@FreeBSD.org> <483d186c-ca63-60ef-5703-8a7ae37e9ced@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:51:02 -0000 On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:10:43 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: > I'm not religious about it being turned off per se. More that it > should have a clearly defined on/off state shown in the defaults. > > I went for 'off' following the general principle that rc.conf items > should mostly be off by default and require specific action to enable. > Yes, there are exceptions to this rule, but I see no particular reason > that iovctl should be one. What's the advantage to turning it on by > default on every FreeBSD installation? Unless I'm misunderstanding the situation. rc.d/iovctl isn't actually doing anything by default because of iovctl_files="". There is an analogy with rc.d/sysctl which runs by default, with a an empty sysctl.conf file. This also has no explicit enable entry in rc.conf.