Re: 15.0 - rc.conf ignores a setting

infoomatic <infoomatic@gmx.at> writes:
> I uninstalled FreeBSD-set-base plus the sets that were pulled in and
> did autoremove the packages.  Now I have FreeBSD-set-kernels,
> FreeBSD-set-minimal, FreeBSD-set-minimal-jail and also the package
> FreeBSD-rc is installed.

I didn't ask you to do any of this.  Just confirming that you already
had FreeBSD-rc (despite it being missing fromt the list that you posted
earlier) would have sufficed.

> However, the setting is ignored again at startup - /var/run/noshutdown
> is not being created.

I took a closer look at the script that creates it.  Turns out, it can't
possibly work as written.  I wonder if it was ever tested?

    % rcorder /etc/rc.d/* |& grep -A1 noshutdown
    /etc/rc.d/noshutdown
    /etc/rc.d/cleanvar

Take a wild guess what the cleanvar script does...

DES
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