>A long time ago I added '-D' to ipmon to have it turn itself into a
>daemon automatically and I changed my startup to be more like:
> 
>     ${command} -D ${ipmon_flags}
>
>The version in -current now has '-D' now too, but unfortunately
>etc/rc.d/ipmon has not yet been fixed to use it explicitly....

what do you mean?  the -D flag was added to ipmon_flags in
/etc/defaults/rc.conf last july, so there's no need for "explicit" use
of it.

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