bin/173454: [patch] service(8) does not respect /etc/rc.conf.d/name

Aslak Raanes aslakr at idi.ntnu.no
Tue Apr 8 14:20:04 UTC 2014


The following reply was made to PR bin/173454; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Aslak Raanes" <aslakr at idi.ntnu.no>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, gd at rambler-co.ru
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/173454: [patch] service(8) does not respect
 /etc/rc.conf.d/name
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:16:26 +0200

 It seems like this bug still apply to 10.0-RELEASE. Since 
 /etc/rc.conf.d/ overrides /etc/rc.conf, using `service -e` will give a 
 wrong impression on which services are enabled.
 
 
      $ uname -sr
      FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE
 
      $ service -e | grep bsnmpd
 
      $ service bsnmpd rcvar
      # bsnmpd
      #
      bsnmpd_enable="NO"
      #   (default: "")
 
      $ echo 'bsnmpd_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
 
      $ service -e | grep bsnmpd
      /etc/rc.d/bsnmpd
 
      $ service bsnmpd rcvar
      # bsnmpd
      #
      bsnmpd_enable="YES"
      #   (default: "")
 
      $ echo 'bsnmpd_enable="NO"' >> /etc/rc.conf.d/bsnmpd
 
      $ service -e| grep bsnmpd
      /etc/rc.d/bsnmpd
 
      $ service bsnmpd rcvar
      # bsnmpd
      #
      bsnmpd_enable="NO"
      #   (default: "")
 
      $ /etc/rc.d/bsnmpd start
      Cannot 'start' bsnmpd. Set bsnmpd_enable to YES in /etc/rc.conf or 
 use 'onestart' instead of 'start'.
 
      $ echo 'bsnmpd_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf.d/bsnmpd
 
      $ service bsnmpd rcvar
      # bsnmpd
      #
      bsnmpd_enable="YES"
      #   (default: "")
 
      $ echo 'bsnmpd_enable="NO"' >> /etc/rc.conf
 
      $ grep bsnmpd_enable /etc/rc.conf
      bsnmpd_enable="YES"
      bsnmpd_enable="NO"
 
      $ cat /etc/rc.conf.d/bsnmpd
      bsnmpd_enable="NO"
      bsnmpd_enable="YES"
 
      $ service bsnmpd rcvar
      # bsnmpd
      #
      bsnmpd_enable="YES"
      #   (default: "")


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