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Date:      Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:09:45 +0100
From:      Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Mike Makonnen <mtm@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.subr
Message-ID:  <20080125170945.GA31476@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080125170546.GC36311@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
References:  <200801251644.m0PGiYJg051286@repoman.freebsd.org> <479A12AF.2050003@samsco.org> <20080125170546.GC36311@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>

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On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:05:46AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:47:43AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> > Mike Makonnen wrote:
> >> mtm         2008-01-25 16:44:34 UTC
> >>   FreeBSD src repository
> >>   Modified files:
> >>     etc                  rc.subr   Log:
> >>   Backout previous commit. It's going to clutter the console
> >>   during boot and shutdown. I think I'll hide it behind autoboot or
> >>   maybe take brooks@ suggestion and implement a different command
> >>   prefix for booting/shutdown purposes, but in any case it needs more
> >>   thought and attention.
> >>     Noticed by: ceri
> >>   Pointyhat to: mtm
> >>     Revision  Changes    Path
> >>   1.79      +0 -3      src/etc/rc.subr
> > 
> > In any case, I think you're on a good track.  I can't tell you how many 
> > times I've pulled my hair out from typing "/etc/rc.d/foo start" at the
> > command line and having nothing at all happen as a response.
> 
> The one that continually messes me up is disabling nagios in
> /etc/rc.conf during maintance and then doing "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/nagios
> stop" and forgetting that it doen't do anything so I get individual
> notices about all 352 cluster nodes going down. :(

semantically foo_enable="YES" could permit "stop" action because I don't
see any logical contradiction in stopping a service that is not enabled...

just my 2 cents :)

roman



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