On 2018-11-04, John Long <codeb...@inbox.lv> wrote: > On Sun, 2018-11-04 at 10:46 +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 03:57:30AM +0100, Klemens Nanni wrote: >> > On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 12:41:17AM +0000, John Long wrote: >> > > If I use rcctl set to set minidlna's flags to -R it seems it will >> > > only >> > > allow me to do it when minidlna is enabled. I would like the >> > > flags to >> > > survive disablement because I don't want to start the minidlna >> > > server >> > > every time the box comes up. >> > >> > Settings flags for disabled daemons is not possible as rcctl tells >> > you. >> > >> > Keeping flags when disabling daemons with rcctl is currently not >> > possible. The only way to do so is by commenting the rc.conf.local >> > line >> > manually. >> >> Note that it would be easy for rcctl to save the flags (basically >> only remove >> minidlna from the pkg_scripts variable). But that would make the >> behavior >> inconsistent with how base rc.d scripts behave. When you disable a >> base script, >> you must remove the foo_flags from rc.conf.local (and can't retain >> the flags). >> I prefer to have a consistent behavior, this is why rcctl works this >> way. > > I did not understand why it worked this way. Thanks for the > explanation! > > /jl > > >
In order to do what you're asking for, set minidlna_flags=-R in rc.conf.local by hand, then you can use "rcctl start minidlna" as normal. As long as you don't use enable/disable you won't need to change it again.
