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On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:03:25PM +0100, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
  | On Friday 09 January 2004 22:52, Andrew Brown wrote:
  | > >Currently /etc/rc.d/virecover can't be controlled by /etc/rc.conf.  I
  | > >wonder if there's any reason for this.
  | > >
  | > >By adding "rcvar=3D$name" into /etc/rc.d/virecover, virecover=3DNO in
  | > >/etc/rc.conf works as other rc.d scripts.
  | >
  | > this
  | >
  | > 	echo 'start_cmd=3D":"' > /etc/rc.conf.d/virecover
  | >
  | > will work as well, and has the added advantage of not modifying the
  | > rc.d scripts...
  | >
  | > it's not that you can't modify them, but if you can avoid it, it's
  | > better.
  |=20
  | Though, the question may be... why that rc.d script does not define rcv=
ar,
  | while others do?

Only for historical reasons; when it was converted from /etc/rc to
/etc/rc.d/*, virecover didn't have an rc.conf(5) variable to control
it.

The original idea is sound; add rcvar=3D$name to /etc/rc.d/virecover,
"virecover=3DYES" to /etc/defaults/rc.conf, and update the rc.conf(5)
manual page.

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