svn commit: r309625 - head/sbin/rcorder

[Ian Lepore]

On Tue, 2016-12-06 at 13:07 -0600, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> On 12/06/2016 11:30, Ravi Pokala wrote:
> > 
> > For grins, I ran this on my build server. The resulting graph is...
> > complex. But one thing was immediately clear: neither
> > /etc/rc.d/dhclient and /etc/rc.d/natd depend on anything. That
> > seems
> > wrong: I would expect them to have some sort of dependency on
> > NETWORKING, either BEFORE (since dhclient may be involved in
> > bringing
> > up the network) or REQUIRE (since it doesn’t make sense to run a
> > networking daemon like natd before networking is up).
> I saw that, too.  I'm pretty sure they're not called directly, but
> are
> called from other scripts, such as network.subr and ipfw,
> respectively.
> They certainly /look/ like they can be called directly.  Maybe that's
> leftover from an older style of configuration?  I defer to the rc
> experts.
> 
> Eric
> 

The clue for that is the "nostart" keyword -- scripts flagged with that
won't be run automatically because /etc/rc does 'rcorder -s nostart',
but they can be run by other scripts or from devd.

-- Ian