Apparently, though unproven, at 22:18 on Wednesday 08 June 2011, Grant Edwards did opine thusly:
> A recent update seems to have broken sshd. It no longer starts when > it should. It seems to refuse to start up unless eth0 is up. For years > I've had the following in /etc/conf.d/rc > > RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="lo" > > According to the comments that means that the "net" service is up as > long as at least one interface (including lo) is up, and sshd used to > obey that setting. But now sshd seems to ignore that and has decided > that it knows better than I do -- it refuses to start when I tell it > to via "/etc/init.d/sshd start", and says "sshd is scheduled to start > when net.eth0 has started". I don't plan on starting net.eth0, but I > want sshd started anyway. If I'd meant "start if you happen to feel > like it" I would have typed Didn't read all the messages and files after upgrading openrc, right? What you want is in /etc/rc.conf and it's now called rc_depend_strict -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

