From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QUQdH-0007BR-0Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:49:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6317EE0384; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:47:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3489AE0384 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:47:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F921B401A for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:47:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -5.204 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.204 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.395, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WfzntlrMP3so for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:47:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB6AC6550A for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:47:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QUQb1-0004on-Gy for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:47:27 +0200 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:47:27 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:47:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: sshd no longer starting when it should. Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 21:47:16 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <201106082226.39220.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201106082309.25688.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c1ad8ca8f792cd662a92605d03073b69 On 2011-06-08, Alan McKinnon 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!! !