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Date:      Tue, 12 Jul 2016 11:26:54 -0400
From:      Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
To:        RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Oversight in /etc/defaults/rc.conf
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:50 AM, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

That is how it is intended to work, and rc.d/sysctl was the inspiration for
that script if memory serves.  I'm not entirely opposed to an iovctl_enable
variable but it seems redundant.



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