[rc update] sshd no longer starts at boot

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Mon Dec 5 07:52:37 PST 2005


On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 12:30:14PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 10:15:03AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> > Nicolas Blais wrote:
> > 
> > >For cupds, after you did the update, did you rm 
> > >/usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh and cp /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh.sample 
> > >/usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh ?
> > 
> > A more effective long term solution to that problem is to do:
> > 
> > cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> > rm cups.sh
> > ln -s cups.sh.sample cups.sh
> 
> I presume that if ports are upgraded so that they honour foo_enable from
> rc.conf, there is no need for them to install foo.sh.sample any more, and
> they should just install foo.sh instead?
> 
> That's unless the port *intends* that the user make changes to the startup
> script directly (in which case, the symlink option given above isn't really
> appropriate)

PREFIX/etc/rc.d/*.sh.sample should not be installed, no exceptions.  If
there's a need for sample startup scripts, we should put them somewhere
under in ${PREFIX}/share/examples.

-- Brooks

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