Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:46:55 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Cc: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moused insists on starting Message-ID: <451C26AF.8060709@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20060928142354.6450b2e0.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <20060928140804.a7c302e8.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <200609281416.56648.lists@jnielsen.net> <20060928142354.6450b2e0.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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Bill Moran wrote: > In response to John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>: > >> On Thursday 28 September 2006 14:08, Bill Moran wrote: >>> 6.1. Moused starts on boot, and issuing /etc/rc.d/moused stop has >>> not effect. My /etc/rc.conf has the line: >>> moused_enable="NO" >>> yet the damn thing starts. >> Assuming you have a USB mouse, this is controlled by /etc/devd.conf >> (or /etc/usbd.conf in older releases). Comment out or modify the ums/moused >> entry to suit your preferences. > > Huh. > > I hate to be a whiner, but shouldn't this respect the moused_enable > setting in rc.conf? I find this a violation of POLA. > I have recently been told that you have to set moused_nondefault_enable="NO" in your rc.conf to deactivate this behaviour. There is no need to mess with your devd.conf.
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