Oversight in /etc/defaults/rc.conf

Ryan Stone rysto32 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 15:26:57 UTC 2016


On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:50 AM, RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Unless I'm misunderstanding the situation. rc.d/iovctl isn't actually
> doing anything by default because of iovctl_files="".
>
> There is an analogy with rc.d/sysctl which runs by default, with a
> an empty sysctl.conf file. This also has no explicit enable entry in
> rc.conf.
>

That is how it is intended to work, and rc.d/sysctl was the inspiration for
that script if memory serves.  I'm not entirely opposed to an iovctl_enable
variable but it seems redundant.


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