using /etc/rc rc.conf

Wed Jun 22 09:39:43 PDT 2005

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:55:42PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
>On 06.06.2005, at 21:39, George Georgalis wrote:
>>if [ -r /etc/defaults/rc.conf ]; then
>>        . /etc/defaults/rc.conf
>>        source_rc_confs
>>elif [ -r /etc/rc.conf ]; then
>>        . /etc/rc.conf
>>fi
>[...]
>
>source_rc_confs is defined in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and will source 
>${rc_conf_files} (which in turn is /etc/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf.local)
>
>>Should I be modifying /etc/defaults/rc.conf and altogether do away with
>>/etc/rc.conf?
>
>no. keep on modifying /etc/rc.conf. your bug must be somewhere 
>else[tm]...

it would seem, in addition to

mta_start_script="/usr/bin/true"

not being respected,

ntpd_enable="YES"

doesn't work either. No time to dig this out lately...

// George

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