Re: questionable feature- rcvar woes



Frank Behrens wrote:
John Baldwin <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 28 Nov 2007 14:37:
Use forcestart or forcestop to manage services that are not enabled in
rc.conf. This is normal. If you got a warning, then on shutdown every rc.d

Most (all?) people recommend in this thread the use of "forcestart" / "forcestop". Is it not
better to use "onestart" / "onestop"?

When I remember right the "force" ignores any failed preconditions.

Regards,
Frank

Yes. one(start|stop) is far more sensible.

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California State University, Bakersfield

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