Feature Request: /usr/local/etc/rc.conf support

[Ted Cabeen]

"Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> On 2004.02.17 13:33:25 -0800, Ted Cabeen wrote:
>> The system securelevel is set in the /etc/rc.conf file.  To prevent an
>> attacker from changing the securelevel defined there and then
>> rebooting the machine, I set the /etc/rc.conf file to be immutable.
>> However, I'd like to be able to install new ports and have them start
>> automatically without having to boot to single-user to modify rc.conf
>> (or any other configuration file equivalent to rc.conf).
>
> There is also the option of using the (yet) undocumented in FreeBSD [1]
> /etc/rc.conf.d/service files.  E.g. to enable rsyncd you would have
> /etc/rc.conf.d/rsyncd with the variable rsyncd_enable="YES" (Note: I
> haven't tested this, but I'm rather sure I'm reading the source and
> NetBSD manual page corrrectly).

Would that file only be parsed when starting a service with that name,
or would it be parsed at the beginning of the rc run?

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