On 2011-06-08, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 22:43 on Wednesday 08 June 2011, Grant > Edwards > >> # Do we allow any started service in the runlevel to satisfy the >> dependency # or do we want all of them regardless of state? For example, >> if net.eth0 # and net.eth1 are in the default runlevel then with >> rc_depend_strict="NO" # both will be started, but services that depend on >> 'net' will work if either # one comes up. With rc_depend_strict="YES" we >> would require them both to # come up. >> #rc_depend_strict="YES" >> >> I had assumed that since the line setting it to YES was commented out >> that the default was NO, and you uncommented the line to set it to >> YES. I don't know where that belief came from, but it's wrong -- the >> commented out line apparently shows the default. > > Yes, that stuff can get confusing and it's easy to get it mixed up.
I had that stuck pretty firmly in my head, so there must have been something I was working with recently which did things the other way 'round where uncommenting lines caused behavior to change. > The way it's done is the only really sane way - consider how it would > play out if the setting was a value or a list of possibilities - you > couldn't put a commented example in there that is the opposite of the > default True. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! It was a JOKE!! at Get it?? I was receiving gmail.com messages from DAVID LETTERMAN!! !