From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 04:25:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABFAD106566C for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 04:25:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 734C48FC0A for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 04:25:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id o614PQfg001932 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:25:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o614PPX6093593 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:25:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id o614PPFW093591; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:25:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:25:25 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Chris Stankevitz Message-ID: <20100701042525.GE50409@dan.emsphone.com> References: <80514.32728.qm@web52906.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <80514.32728.qm@web52906.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96 at email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:25:26 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.conf: gnome_enable="YES" - which instructions executed? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:25:27 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 30), Chris Stankevitz said: > My rc.conf file has this entry: gnome_enable="YES" > > Q: Where on my hard drive can I find the instructions executed to "enable" GNOME? > > A: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gnome [bad answer: file does not exist] > > Thank you, Try: grep "name=.*gnome" /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* Most rc scripts are named the same as their rc.subr enable_* variables, but they don't have to be. If no rc.d scripts have "name=gnome" in them, then your gnome_enable line doesn't do a thing. Maybe you had installed a port at some point in the past that required it, but the port has been uninstalled since then? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com