service doen't get started at boottime, but can start manually

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On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 18:00:24 +0100
Mike Clarke wrote:

> On Sunday 07 Sep 2014 09:53:51 Scot Hetzel wrote:
> 
> > The scripts in 3-6, and 8 are wrong.  According to /etc/rc.subr, the
> > '# PROVIDE: ' is mandatory to detect a rc script:
> 
> Well it appears that they are only half wrong.
> 
> Scripts without PROVIDE will work if they're in /etc/rc.d but not if 
> in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. I have run a test case to confirm this.

Whether or not you can get away without PROVIDE  a script should still
have one in case it's needed for other ports or local scripts.