docs/140495: /etc/rc.conf.d is not documented in rc.conf(5)

Tom Judge tom at tomjudge.com
Thu Nov 12 00:50:04 UTC 2009


The following reply was made to PR docs/140495; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tom Judge <tom at tomjudge.com>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/140495: /etc/rc.conf.d is not documented in rc.conf(5)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:28:03 +0000

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 Here is a better more accurate patch.
 
 
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 Index: rc.conf.5
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 --- rc.conf.5	(revision 199205)
 +++ rc.conf.5	(working copy)
 @@ -63,8 +63,16 @@
  .Pa /etc/rc.conf.local
  is used to override settings in
  .Pa /etc/rc.conf
 -for historical reasons.
 -See the
 +for historical reasons. In addition to 
 +.Pa /etc/rc.conf.local
 +you can also place smaller configuration files for each rc script in 
 +the directory
 +.Pa /etc/rc.conf.d
 +which will be included by the 
 +.Va load_rc_config 
 +function. For jail configuration you would use the file
 +.Pa /etc/rc.conf.d/jail
 +to store jail specific configuration options. Also see the
  .Va rc_conf_files
  variable below.
  .Pp
 
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