On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Tony Houghton wrote:

> In message <Pine.GSO.3.95.971207002142.8841A-100000@holyrood.ed.ac.uk>
>           Daniel Brown <crp02@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Yes, I'm over that hurdle, but I suppose I'd better dig about a bit and
> see if I can find out what was supposed to configure it.
>
rc.conf controls the basic system configuration. The whole point of
rc_configured is to do what it did for you to encourage you to set it up
correctly for your machine.

There currently quite a lot of debate on the NetBSD current-users mailing
list as whether this feature is a good thing.
 
Mike