questionable feature- rcvar woes

[Trond Endrestøl]

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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:37+0100, Milan Obuch wrote:

> On Wednesday 28 November 2007 20:16:51 Andrei Kolu wrote:
> >
> > 1) Disable powerd in rc.conf- comment it out.
> > # enable_powerd="YES"
> > 2) Stop powerd
> > # /etc/rc.d/powerd stop
> > ...silence- nothing in logs either.
> 
> Stop for a moment - enable_powerd means actually 'enable action carried 
> by /etc/rc.d/powerd script', using this semantics actually explains all 
> details. Or you could treat it as a stack of a sort, reversing order to 2) 1) 
> just produces desired output.

/etc/rc.d/powerd forcestop

will execute the stop code regardless of the rcvar in /etc/rc.conf or 
similar files.

rc.subr(8) is your friend, or perhaps not.

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