Re: ppp rcvar

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 21 August 2012 16:56, Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:36:56AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Patrick Welche wrote:
>>
>> > Is the lack of rcvar in rc.d/ppp intentional or an oversight?
>> >
>> > (Now I'm not sure if I had put ppp=NO or pppd=NO in rc.conf, and was then
>> > surprised that the phone was engaged hours after booting)
>>
>> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-misc/2008/02/23/msg000005.html
>>
>> Some of the thread answers why it happened.
>
> It seems that ppp isn't considered in the thread. I would expect ppp=YES to
> mean at boot run ppp and connect to $ppp_peers | /etc/ppp/peers. If ppp=NO
> then wait for a /etc/rc.d/ppp onestart.
>
> Thoughts?

Makes perfect sense to me - providing the defaults are left at YES I
cannot imagine why almost all rc.d files should be checking an
rcvar...