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authordes <des@FreeBSD.org>2014-09-08 11:18:27 +0000
committerdes <des@FreeBSD.org>2014-09-08 11:18:27 +0000
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MFH (r270392, r270676, r270679, r270698): add support for subdirectories in rc.conf.d
Approved by: re (glebius)
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/rc.conf.523
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
index e05291d..ce1230e 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd February 15, 2014
+.Dd August 27, 2014
.Dt RC.CONF 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -63,18 +63,37 @@ The file
is used to override settings in
.Pa /etc/rc.conf
for historical reasons.
+.Pp
In addition to
.Pa /etc/rc.conf.local
you can also place smaller configuration files for each
.Xr rc 8
script in the
.Pa /etc/rc.conf.d
-directory, which will be included by the
+directory or
+.Ao Ar dir Ac Ns Pa /rc.conf.d
+directories specified in
+.Va local_startup ,
+which will be included by the
.Va load_rc_config
function.
For jail configurations you could use the file
.Pa /etc/rc.conf.d/jail
to store jail specific configuration options.
+If
+.Va local_startup
+contains
+.Pa /usr/local/etc/rc.d
+and
+.Pa /opt/conf ,
+.Pa /usr/local/rc.conf.d/jail
+and
+.Pa /opt/conf/rc.conf.d/jail
+will be loaded.
+If
+.Ao Ar dir Ac Ns Pa /rc.conf.d/ Ns Ao Ar name Ac
+is a directory,
+all of files in the directory will be loaded.
Also see the
.Va rc_conf_files
variable below.
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