Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 07:32:50 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USE_RC_SUBR Message-ID: <xzpsmhuc7ot.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <1075666428.89887.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> (Joe Marcus Clarke's message of "Sun, 01 Feb 2004 15:13:48 -0500") References: <xzpsmhuef9m.fsf@dwp.des.no> <1075666428.89887.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> writes: > There was a problem with testing for /etc/rc.subr existence with package > builds on bento. However, this is being addressed in the current 4-exp > build. Thanks. Another issue with rc.subr is POLA. Previously, anything listed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d would start at boot time (or when you ran the script manually). Now, though, ports using rc.subr don't start unless you explicitly enable them in /etc/rc.conf. The startup script will simply do nothing, with no warning to the user. I got bitten by this last night when I updated SpamAssassin on my mail server, and found out only this morning that it had switched to using rc.subr. I'm not going to start an argument about the desirability of this; the point is that people need to be made aware of it. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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